Segolene Royal, the socialist candidate to become France’s next president, has said she is in favour of holding a new referendum on a revised EU constitution in 2009, proposing to […]
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German chancellor Angela Merkel has told MEPs she does not intend to re-launch a broad debate on the revised EU constitution but rather focus on confidential talks with national governments,
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It is the tradition at this time of year for the newspapers to be full of predictions for the year ahead. This blog refuses to follow suit, partly because it’s
“In view of these major challenges, the European Union must reform its current treaties. We are convinced that the necessary reforms can be achieved through the Constitutional Treaty. The debate
Catholic bishops for the constitutional treaty – May 2006 Read More »
Press conference, 11 October 2006: The French presidency should set up a convention to prepare the text of an institutional reform to presented to the peoples, on the same day, following
Ségolène Royal on Europe Read More »
Written answer in the House of Commons, 11 Dec 2006 : Column 771W Mr. MacShane: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what legal opinion she has
Geoff Hoon: Treaty amendment is needed Read More »
EP vice-president, French Green Gérard Onesta (who is also a member of the EP constitutional affairs committee) presented on Wednesday 29 November 2006 his plan A+ for the continuation of
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By Kalypso Nicolaïdis Should there be life after death for the European constitutional project? According to myth, it is the path to the Grail that matters. So for the quest
Should there be life after death for the European constitutional project? Read More »
The Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern has suggested the EU constitution could be altered in order to win the approval of French and Dutch voters who rejected the text last
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By Emmanouil Vrentzos Report on the seminar held on 18 November 2006 On 18 November 2006, Federal Union organised an event on the future of the European constitution, which took
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