THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/constitution

Treaty establishing constitution and final act of intergovernmental conference are signed in Rome - on same day, Italian government adopts draft law allowing Italy to be first to ratify it - Before signing at the Campidoglio, Berlusconi, Balkenende, Ahern, Borrell, Prodi and Barroso highlight progress in constitution and need to explain it to citizens for ratification throughout EU

Rome, 29/10/2004 (Agence Europe) - Heads of State and governments from Member States of the European Union, together with their foreign affairs ministers have signed the treaty establishing a European Constitution on 29 October in Rome in the Oriazi and Curiazi rooms of the Campidoglio, where the Treaty of Rome was signed on 25 march 1957. Before the treaty was signed, which was attended by the president of the Italian Republic, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi and the President of the European...