THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/reflection period

Plenary retains several options for the Constitution, but recognises, as Rapporteurs Duff and Voggenhuber wanted, that measures will have to be taken to respond to French and Dutch concerns - rapporteurs confident in the way things are shaping up, despite letter from leaders of three parliaments

Strasbourg, 19/01/2006 (Agence Europe) - On 19 January, the European Parliament adopted, by 385 votes to 125, with 51 abstentions, the report from Andrew Duff (ALDE, UK) and Johannes Voggenhuber (Green, Austria) on the “reflection period: form, topics and framework for assessing the debate on the European Union”, after the suspension of the European Constitution ratification process in several Member States, amending slightly the text adopted in the Constitutional Affairs committee (for...