03/05/2005 (Agence Europe) - During the Open Door Day at the European Institutions, on 30 April, the UEF - Belgium (Union of European Federalists) carried out an impromptu survey on Europe by questioning visitors to the European Parliament in Brussels. Questions posed included: Are you for or against the Constitution? Would you have liked a referendum on the Constitution in Belgium? Would you like the future Union Foreign Minister to come more under the States or the Commission? Would you like the economic and social areas to come more under intergovernmental authority or the Community method? Are you for a real federal Europe? Among the 200 persons taking part in the survey, there were MEPs Jean-Luc Dehaene, former Belgian Prime Minister and vice-Chairman of the European Convention, and Gérard Deprez. Michele Ciavarini Azzi, UEF -Belgium President, notes in a press release that 94% of Belgians taking part in the survey are in favour of the Constitution (but 40% of those questioned are against a referendum on the Constitution in Belgium), 88% are in favour of a federal Europe, nearly 70% believe that the Union's Foreign Minister should come under the Commission (and not the Council) and that economic and social areas should come under the Community method. Although they acknowledge that there are inconsistencies (30% of those taking part in the survey give preference to what is intergovernmental while a large majority supports a federal Europe), Mr Ciavarini and Dominico Rossetti di Valdalbero, Secretary General of UEF-Belgium, have come to the conclusion that the “goal of achieving a truly federal Europe seems more likely than one would have thought”.