Brussels, 28/05/2002 (Agence Europe) - Federalist Voice, a network of twelve organisations in favour of a European Federal Constitution, protests against the decisions taken by the Convention Praesidium on civil society hearings. It considers that "none of the seven thematic Contact Groups actually relate to the general interest of Europeans for more democratic and efficient EU institutions which are closer to the citizens". Criticising this vision of a "compartmentalised public European...