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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7647

3 February 2000
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) charter of fundamental rights
Body to be called "Convention" - timetable and working method

Brussels, 02/02/2000 (Agence Europe) - At the opening of its second plenary session, the body responsible for drawing up a draft EU Charter on Fundamental Rights decided, by consensus, to take the name of "Convention". This decision was taken against the opinion of the French elected member of the Union for a Europe of Nations, Georges Berthu. The latter was opposed as he felt the mandate of the European Council of Cologne spoke of a "body" and this did not entitle it to give itself another...

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