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Convention Members call for more qualified majority voting - Isolated, the UK continues to call for Charter of Fundamental Rights to form protocol annexed to future Constitutional Treaty

Brussels, 02/06/2003 (Agence Europe) - At the European Convention plenary session on Saturday morning, the Convention Members discussed documents they had been submitted by the Praesidium for part II (Charter of Fundamental Rights) and III (EU policies) of the future Constitutional Treaty. The debate confirmed the almost unanimous support for the Charter to be incorporated in the Treaty and the desire by a huge majority of Members to further extend qualified majority voting (QMV) on the...