On 21 September, during the Italian-German Summit that took place in Berlin, La Republica and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung published an article signed by the Italian Prime Minister Giuliano Amato and the German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, which underlined their determination to support the French Presidency so that the European Council in Nice concludes with the success of the intergovernmental conference, and which would propose the opening of a constitutional debate in the "post...