Brussels, 01/06/2001 (Agence Europe) - Several members of the Socialist Group who launched the initiative for a "new European federalism" (see EUROPE/Documents No2231, dated 3 March 2001) insisted during a conference on the fringe of the EP plenary session in Brussels that a Convention be convened to prepare the new IGC. They distributed a badge which reads: "Yes for Convention". The Convention should be transparent, open to the press and therefore also to citizens, said Portuguese Socialist...