23/10/2003 (Agence Europe) - Without taking up his "Chronicles of the Convention", MEP Olivier Duhamel (and former Convention member) wanted to set the record straight on the "repeated falsehoods about the draft European Constitution", including: 1) "the Giscard Constitution?": Giscard "did not impose his ideas on the election of the President of the European Council, the creation of a Congress, or the changing of the Union's name", said the French Socialist; 2) "An antidemocratic elaboration?" The Convention, over two-thirds MEPs, "worked in daylight" and its working documents, which are available on Internet, have been consulted "by 700,000 people outside the European Institutions"; 3) "Economic liberalism set up as a higher value?" Just reading article 3 on the union's objectives shows that they must be "reconciled, free competition with the objective of full employment, competitiveness with social progress, growth with sustainable development" (to say nothing of the values included in the Charter). If the IGC fails, "we will be stuck with the Treaty of Nice", warns Mr Duhamel, and "no European Constitution will see the light of day in the short or medium term".