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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8590
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/igc

Constitution Intergroup insists on "minimal requirements"

Strasbourg, 21/11/2003 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament's Intergroup on European Constitution (composed of 230 MEPs) are so far deeply disappointed that "no single proposal" has been made at the IGC with a view to making further progress in European integration. It calls on the European Parliament and on national parliaments to adopt a "list of minimal requirements for the IGC" at their meeting on 5 December in Brussels. The Intergroup, which recalls that parliaments should ratify the Constitution, considers that these requirements would be: - the realisation of European democracy (EP rights in budgetary procedure, in legislation, in the control of the executive and in the process for amending the Constitution); - the creation of an efficient European Union (no reduction of the areas under qualified majority voting); - and flexibility for revision of the Constitution (in particular part III).

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