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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7678

17 March 2000
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/charter of fundamental rights
Parliament votes by an overwhelming majority for a legally binding charter written into the Treaty

Strasbourg, 16/03/2000 (Agence Europe) - With its adoption -in a vote of 344 to 107, with 27 abstentions- of the report by British Liberal Andrew Duff and Austrian Green Johannes Voggenhuber, Parliament welcomed the drafting of a Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. It stated that the charter should be "seeen as the central element of a process culminating in the European Union's adoption of a constitution" (349 to 109, 22 abstentions). Parliament observed that with the...

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