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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8899

2 March 2005
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/constitution
French Parliament paves way for referendum on Constitution and another before Turkish accession

Brussels, 01/03/2005 (Agence Europe) - The French Parliament, meeting in congress, paved the way on Monday for a referendum to be held in France on the European Constitution, voting 730 to 66 for the reform of the French Constitution. The President of the Republic will announce the date of the popular vote, likely to be May or June. The majority parties voted almost unanimously in favour of the Constitutional Treaty (only 11 voted against with 8 abstentions), but the Socialist party was...

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