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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8158

25 February 2002
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/convention
Voggenhuber insists on "European democracy" - Organisation of inaugural session of Praesidium

Brussels, 25/02/2002 (Agence Europe) - When speaking to the press, Austria's Johannes Voggenhuber, who will be the only Green member of the Convention on the future of Europe, placed emphasis on the need to make the goal of the setting up of a "European democracy" the driving force of the work of the Convention. According to him, the Convention should establish democratic mechanisms leaving it up to Europe to gradually build itself up setting out from those mechanisms. He went on: "it would...

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