Brussels, 15/07/2003 (Agence Europe) - In his latest address to the European Convention plenary on 10 July, Vice-President Giuliano Amato welcomed the work by European students, who met in Rome from 3 to 5 July, at hearings organised by the city's Tor Vergata university and Paris's political science faculty. "These young people have submitted their amendments to the text we prepared. I told them: 'You are the Europe of the next ten or twenty years; you are already thinking in terms of how it ought to be, and how our generation failed to make it'. We have built foot-bridges for these young people. I think that this is perhaps not enough. But I know that in ten years, these young people will cross them, and their Europe will be the Europe we prepared for them".
In Rome, the students pronounced themselves for: - the inclusion of symbols in the Constitution; - greater extension of qualified majority voting, especially in the fields of CFSP and social policy; - revision of the Treaty given a four-fifths majority in the European Council; - the ratification of the constitutional Treaty on the same day in all the Member States. The entire text of the document drawn up by the students is available on Internet at the following address: http: //conventioneuropeenne.science-po.fr/sciences_po/cee/final.pdf