THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/post nice

Richard Corbett, for whom post Nice is "a branch to be grabbed", suggests holding regional and national hearings in 2002 and Convention in 2004, while a "Charter of competences" appears to him to be a "unnecessary protection"

Brussels, 14/02/2001 (Agence Europe) - The British Labour member, Richard Corbett, member of the European Parliament's Constitutional Committee, underlines the consequences of a rejection of the Nice Treaty by the European Parliament, in a contribution entitles "How to lead a "salade nicoise"?" aimed at the special meeting by the group recently dedicated, in Verviers, to the Nice Treaty and post Nice. If we reject the Treaty, we are in fact calling on the national parliaments not to ratify...