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Short Account of the European Convention - Pedro Solbes confirms Commission's ambition for co-ordination of economic policies - A debate that the "defence" working group will not be able to avoid

I possibly exaggerated last week by dwelling on the details of the Union's future institutional structure, neglecting the golden rule dear to Convention President Giscard d'Estaing by which Europeans must first agree on what they want to do together, and then define the workings of the institutions in the light of what they will have decided as to substance. My justification is that the institutional debate is nevertheless there: most papers submitted to the members of the Convention, as...