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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7908

22 February 2001
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/treaty of nice
Speaking personally, Fontaine comes down in favour of treaty's ratification, and pleads in favour of "constitution for Europe"

Paris, 21/02/2001 (Agence Europe) - In an article published in Le Monde, La Repubblica the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and ABC of 21 February, European Parliament President Nicole Fontaine denounces the "weaknesses" of the Nice Summit but stresses that it "opened up the future". "I'm not sure that we could have done better", she acknowledges. And, to those who claim that the rejection of the Treaty of Nice "by the parliament of a large founder country of the European Community would have...

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