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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9134

18 February 2006
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/france/constitution
Nicolas Sarkozy restates proposals for lighter constitutional treaty and a six-party motor for driving EU forward

Brussels, 17/02/2006 (Agence Europe) - French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, who was in Berlin on Thursday for talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel and his German opposite number, Wolfgang Schäuble, restated his proposal for swift implementation by 2009 of a constitutional treaty limited to a “few important articles” to seek to bring the EU out of the crisis into which it has been plunged by the French and Dutch rejections of the Constitution. “During the referendum campaign (in...

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