If a new treaty is to focus primarily on the concerns of the citizens, the Charter should definitely be included. The Dutch citizens have already indicated that they are hugely
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Frédéric Esposito, professor of law at the University of Geneva (IEUG) is militating in favour of a consultative European referendum that would allow the EU to get out of its
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Dominique de Villepin aurait-il, pour l’Europe, de plus hautes ambitions que Nicolas Sarkozy ? C’est ce qu’il a laissé entendre jeudi à Bucarest où, lors d’une rencontre avec des étudiants
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Guido WESTERWELLE, head of the German Liberal party (FDP), called for a European-wide referendum on the European constitution to be held on the same day: “That would be a real
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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
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
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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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“My proposal is as simple as it is radical: the Constitution, drastically reduced, should be submitted to approval once again, and not just by each Nation State on its own,
Ulrich Beck, Sociologist Read More »