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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8500

9 July 2003
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS /
The Convention should strike a balance between a) possible improvements to draft Constitution and b) avoiding danger of full-scale relaunching of inter-government negotiations

Several Convention Members are doing their utmost to beef up the content and outcome of the final stages of their work (this Wednesday and Thursday) despite the clear limits set on the extra time conceded by heads of government to the Convention Chairman. Valéry Giscard d'Estaing insists on these limits (changing the slightest comma of the first and second parts of the draft Constitution (already formally submitted to the Summit) it is out of the question), but at the same time he has not...

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