11.09.2003 (Agence Europe) - The latest edition of La Lettre des Européens, published by the European Movement in France, which was a special issue given over entirely to the European Constitution, contains a series of pleas in favour of a referendum on the future Constitution, at the same time in all Member States if possible- during which the European Movement could marshal its militants. Anne-Marie Idrac, chairman of European Movement France, announced that during France's Journées Nationales d'Etudes, to be held in Rouen on 18 and 19 October, the organisation intends to “make as many people as possible aware about the contents of this draft Constitution”. European Commissioner (and Convention member) Michel Barnier states that the referendum is “a risk to be taken but with no naivety in preparing for it”, and Pascale Andréani, who represented the French government in the Convention, feels that “on this kind of subject, the citizens should be consulted” (although she does acknowledge that the French government has not as yet fixed its position on the possibility of a referendum). The citizens “are more European than national leaders”, and the political Europe can be based on nothing but the people themselves, insists MEP and (Convention member) Alain Lamassoure, whilst MEP (and Convention member) Pervenche Berès raised areas in which the IGC could improve the Convention's text without unravelling it, because, she says, “can we allow only those who wish to lower the level reached by the Convention present their claims” to the InterGovernmental Conference? (http: //http://www.mouvement-europeen.org ).