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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8567

21 October 2003
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/constitution/religion
"European Initiative" for wording proposed by Convention and for abolition of Article 51 on churches

Brussels, 20/10/2003 (Agence Europe) - Gianni Copetti, from the European Initiative movement, has written to the Belgian government calling upon it to ensure that, at the IGC, there will be a reference in the preamble of the future European Constitution to the European heritage "likely to bring all citizens together rather than divide them by referring to one specific religion". In his view, the wording proposed by the European Convention ("cultural, religious and humanist heritage") is...

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