07/05/2003 (Agence Europe) - Maurizio Turco, elected on the Lista Bonino, has pointed out that Valéry Giscard d'Estaing had given his assurance in a letter that the Praesidium of the European Convention would duly take into account its proposal (signed up to at this stage by 233 MEPs and 229 representatives of the fifteen Member States). The proposal provides for "respect of the principles of religious freedom and a secular State" to be included in the future Constitutional Treaty. The...