Giscard presents draft constitutional treaty

Officially handed out to members of the Convention on the future of Europe on Monday afternoon, the skeletal outline for a future constitutional treaty of Europe has 46 articles and is divided into three parts and a preamble. Introducing the draft as a "basic structure," Convention president Giscard Valéry d’Estaing, requested that the debate be on "structure and not on substance."

Convention delegates, who will Tuesday debate the proposal, will have much to consider. The new EU provid...