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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8129

16 January 2002
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/convention
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing says desire for progress dominates in EU ahead of launch of Convention

Brussels, 15/01/2002 (Agence Europe) - Ahead of the inauguration of the Convention (scheduled for 28 February), Chairman Valéry Giscard d'Estaing was in confident mood in an interview with the French paper Le Monde, in which he said that the desire to make progress predominates in the EU and the Convention launched by the Laeken Summit goes further than initially predicted. What had come as a complete surprise, he said, was the explicit reference to a Constitution in the Laeken Declaration,...

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