01/08/2003 (Agence Europe) - CSU MEP, Markus Ferber, has voiced his strong reservations in a press statement about the proposal supported by around one hundred members of the European convention to ratify the future European Constitution by way of a Union-wide referendum (EUROPE 12 July p 15). Member States "as masters of the treaties must remain masters of the procedures", he declared in the communiqué. He also noted that any popular consultation at a European level would suppose the...