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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8677

31 March 2004
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS /
The Summit "decided" to approve the Constitution by the end of June, it must be taken at its word and the extra demands toned down

Success must come in May, before the European elections. The second main theme of the Spring Summit after terrorism (see this column yesterday) was the re-launch of negotiations of the European Constitution. The small text on this (paragraphs 3 and 4 of the "Presidency conclusions" reproduced in EUROPE/Documents, Nr 2367, distributed with yesterday's bulletin) has an essential significance: it does not talk of a wish, an intention, an objective, but states that the European Council "decided...

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