26/04/2001 (Agence Europe) - In an interview published on Thursday by Le Figaro, the leader of the CDU Angela Merkel stressed, among other things, that under the leadership of her predecessor, Wolfgang Schauble, "we are drawing up our own draft European constitutional pact". "We want to create a citizens' Europe, ring-fencing, to begin with regional, national and European competencies", she said, adding that France and Germany had to continue to be the driving force of European unification,...