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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8637

4 February 2004
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS /
Is the "defence" plank of the Constitution really up to scratch and a definite achivement? Some surprising conclusions by Convention member Hubert Haenel

How much of the draft Constitution on the European defence policy is really in the bag? This may seem an inappropriate or confrontational question, because one way or another, all commentators have written that the main success of the intergovernmental conference (IGC) to date has been the compromise on CFSP, which exceeded the results of the Convention itself. The text initially negotiated between the "three big ones" (France, United Kingdom, Germany), discussed by the IGC at Foreign...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
THE DAY IN POLITICS
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