Brussels, 11.09.2003 (Agence Europe) - “It seems to us incongruous that the new draft Treaty calls for all the meetings of the Council of Ministers to be public and that the basic law, the Constitutional Treaty itself, is to be adopted behind closed doors. Furthermore, the new EU Treaty will be one of very few international Treaties negotiated without a single plenary meeting held in public” said the European Policy Centre, which is pleading in favour of an open and transparent InterGovernmental Conference. “The Constitutional Treaty was approved by consensus as part of a democratic and representative process. The public has the right to know to what extent and why the Member States want to make considerable changes to the Convention's proposals”, added the EPC.