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Romano Prodi insists on double majority in Council and refuses all "leftovers" - In his view, this weekend's IGC will either come to a good conclusion or no conclusion at all - It should be possible to amend Constitution by majority, as in United States, Commission President insists, saying Italian text is well balanced

Brussels, 11/12/2003 (Agence Europe) - "Rarely, perhaps never", has a European summit been as decisive for the future of European integration, Romano Prodi told the press on the eve of Friday's European Council and, above all, of the Intergovernmental Conference on the Constitutional Treaty. The President of the European Commission (who gave his assurance that cooperation with the Italian Presidency had been constant and "deep", in anticipation of any questions that might be put to him on...