04/08/2003 (Agence Europe) - The acting President of the General Affairs and External Relations Council, Franco Frattini, noted in an interview in the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera on 2 August that the Italian Presidency would be throwing its weight behind the outcome of the European Convention at the Intergovernmental Conference (due to start in Rome on 4 October). He said it would give Europeans a serious signal of scepticism and lack of confidence if they were invited to vote in...