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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8943
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS / A look behind the news, by ferdinando riccardi

Constitution: The progress of the yes vote in France is understandable, but it's not over yet

There's nothing surprising about the progress made by the “yes” camp in the referendum campaign in France. It's the logical outcome of efforts to make the citizens aware of the reality of the Constitution and to prove just how weak and dishonest the arguments of the “no” side really are, such as: the Constitution will ban abortion and even divorce, it will destroy public services (when in fact it protects them), and so on. In the campaign, after the period dominated by reasons that...

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