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