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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8466

21 May 2003
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/convention/united kingdom
Tony Blair asks Valéry Giscard d'Estaing to remove the word "federal" from future Constitution

Brussels, 20/05/2003 (Agence Europe) - According to the Guardian; British Prime Minister Tony Blair asked European Convention President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing to remove the word "federal" from the future European Constitution, at their dinner on Monday evening. The London daily newspaper also reported that during their two-and-a-half-hour meeting (the third since the Convention's work began), Tony Blair also warned that the Constitution must not give the European Commission any powers in...

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