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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8726

16 June 2004
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/constitution

15/06/2004 (Agence Europe) - Speaking in Luxembourg on Monday, Cypriot Foreign Minister George Iacavou called for the quotation by Greek historian Thucydides to be kept in the draft European Constitution after having been removed from the last document of the Irish Presidency. According to AFP, Hellenists said the phrase ("our Constitution … is called democracy because the power is in the hands not of a minority but of the largest number") was badly translated and also that Thucydides was...

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