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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8240

24 June 2002
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/convention/civil society
Dehaene stresses that meeting with civil society is neither first nor last - Entry into heart of debate with Haensch - VDE stresses that European Council of Seville placed emphasis on respect of timetable

Brussels, 24/06/2002 (Agence Europe) - Our hearing with civil society "is not an exercise for style for us, but an enrichment of of the Convention at a stage where it still has not decided on its directions", said the Convention's President Vaery Giscard d'Estaing when opening a two-day session on 24 June devoted to listening civil society. In this debate, "there will only be two rules: freedom of expression (…) and the respect of the others", he said. Giscard d'Estaing had begun with a...

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