On 17 December 2002, the European Parliament adopted the report by UDF member Jean-Louis Bourlanges MEP on the hierarchy of European legislation that is a major contribution to the work of simplifying procedures to which the European Convention is applying itself in the framework of drafting the future Constitutional Treaty. In this report, which on certain aspects tallies with the ideas of the working group chaired by Giuliano Amato within the Convention, Parliament comes down in favour of...