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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8564

16 October 2003
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS /
Foreign Affairs Ministers negotiate constitution for Europe as if it were power struggle and forget what's at stake - sommersault by Heads of Government on Thursday?

For the moment, the IGC, which is meant to give birth to the Constitution for Europe, is experiencing a worst case scenario. While waiting for Thursday, Heads of Government and Foreign Affairs Ministers are behaving as if they were in intergovernmental negotiations, of which Europe has often sadly experienced. They create the impression that they have forgotten that almost two years ago in Laeken, Member States had learned the lesson of the failure of the most recent IGCs and had decided to...

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