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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9107

12 January 2006
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS / A look behind the news, by ferdinando riccardi
Relaunching debate on Constitutional Treaty should not be used to ignore the sheer scale of disagreement or problems with getting the Constitution back on track

Nostalgia for the Constitutional Treaty and desire to relaunch discussions about it are a positive move (see my column in issues 9102 and 9104), but we should not be over-optimistic. Opinions differ about the path to be taken and it will not be easy to reconcile them.

Too many options open at the European Parliament? The first institution to spot the problems of how to reach a clear and uniform view was the European Parliament. Its two rapporteurs on the matter, Andrew Duff and Johannes...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
THE DAY IN POLITICS
GENERAL NEWS