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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8316

11 October 2002
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/convention/civil society
Forum rejects "confederal choice"

Brussels, 10/10/2002 (Agence Europe) - In a contribution adopted last week on the Constitution of the Union, the Permanent Forum for Civil Society again rejected the "confederal choice...of pure intergovernmental co-operation". It believes that the response to the "powerlessness of Europe" is a "federal Europe". According to the Forum, the peoples of the Union must be able to express themselves "either by referendum on the adoption of the Constitution or by calling for a constituent assembly...

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