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An article in the EPP paper suggest that member states would ratify according to their "respective constitutional requirements." Failure to do so, would mean them having one year to "decide whether they want to be a member of the Union on the basis of thi (Photo: EUobserver)

Congress of the Peoples is unacceptable to the EPP

The European People’s Party (EPP), the biggest political family in Europe, have rejected Convention president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing’s idea for a European Congress of the Peoples. Speaking at the presentation of the EPP’s draft constitution, which was drawn up on the basis of Mr Giscard’s structural outline, Wilfried Marten, EPP chairman, said it was "not acceptable."

No new institutions

"We rejected the idea of creating a new institution," added Elmar Brok, German MEP ...

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An article in the EPP paper suggest that member states would ratify according to their "respective constitutional requirements." Failure to do so, would mean them having one year to "decide whether they want to be a member of the Union on the basis of thi (Photo: EUobserver)

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