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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9020

6 September 2005
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS / A look behind the news, by ferdinando riccardi
Major reflection on future of Europe set to open this autumn, but the Member States' viewpoints are still a long way apart

Surface consensus. We're there. This month should see the opening of the major reflection on the future of the European Union: its nature, objectives and even its boundaries. When the European Parliament expressed the need for this, further to the rejection of the Constitution in France and the Netherlands, and when several governments, together with the European Commission, agreed, everybody (or nearly) welcomed this, and then Tony Blair basically imposed it, by rejecting the compromise...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
THE DAY IN POLITICS
GENERAL NEWS
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