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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8581

8 November 2003
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/igc/germany

07/11/2003 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday, the Bundestag rejected by 528 votes to 50 and 6 abstentions the proposal by the FDP to hold a referendum on the European Constitution. During the debate, Joschka Fischer said he feared the danger of the "populistic trap". During a conference on Thursday at the Paulskirche in Frankfurt in the presence of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Mr Fischer felt, according to the Frankfurter Allgemaine Zeitung, that even in twenty years from now there could not be a...

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