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Consenus at Genval on a Convention to prepare IGC, but no agreement on participation of candidate countries or areas to be covered by Convention

Genval, 10/09/2001 (Agence Europe) - Consensus emerged over the setting up of a Convention to prepare for the future Intergovernmental Conference on institutional reform of the EU at the informal EU Foreign Ministers' meeting in Genval on 8/9 September, linked with a Civil Society Forum. Ministers also agreed in Genval on the Convention's format and the broad outline of the Laeken Declaration (after the European Summit on 14/15 December). After the meeting, the Belgian Foreign Minister Louis...