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Architecture of future constitutional treaty presented by Valery Giscard d'Estaing provides for right to secession - A Union of States managing certain common competencies in a "federal way"

Brussels, 28/10/2002 (Agence Europe) - Many conditionals and many "blanks", obviously in the sketch of the institutional architecture presented Monday afternoon in the plenary session of the European Convention by its President, Valery Giscard d'Estaing (who welcomed the presence, for the first time, of the new representative of the German Government, Joschka Fischer). "We are moving slowly, but surely, to our goal. The tortoise will be ready at the rendezvous", said VGE, believing that, in...