Brussels, 25/02/2002 (Agence Europe) - The Steering Committee of the International European Movement (IEM), which met under the chairmanship of José Maria Gil-Robles, called on the Convention on the Future of Europe to submit to the next Intergovernmental Conference "a constitutional text, not an enumeration of political proposals". In addition, it restated that the Convention should complete its work in one year, so that the EP may give its position for the first half of 2003, and that the IGC should end in 2003 in order to be able to face the 2004 deadlines (European elections and accessions by candidate countries) with "serenity".
Furthermore, on 25 February, the IEM made public its first contribution to the work of the Convention, namely a final review of the proposals of the working group presided over by Charles-Ferdinand Nothom, President of The European Movement in Belgium, in response to the question of President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Convention Chairman: "What do Europeans expect from the EU?"