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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7737

15 June 2000
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/institutional reform
Appeal by Bayrou and Cohn-Bendit for a democratic Europe, with a constitution, a president elected by universal suffrage and clear sharing of powers

Strasbourg, 14/06/2000 (Agence Europe) - French Christian Democrat François Bayrou and French Green Daniel Cohn-Bendit have launched, on the fringe of the European Parliament plenary session, an appeal for Europe to become a democracy. The appeal is based on an observation: "Europe is the only answer to the problems of our future (...). Europe is beginning to assume its responsibilities. It demonstrated this in Kosovo. It did the same in Austria. It is putting on its agenda a conflict...

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