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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9396
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/netherlands/constitution

Dutch government says starting point on EU reform should be Treaty of Nice

Brussels, 28/03/2007 (Agence Europe) - The Netherlands, whose people rejected the Constitutional Treaty in a referendum on 1 June 2005, considers that the starting point on institutional reform of the European Union has to be the Treaty of Nice, which is currently in force, and not the draft European Constitution, prepared by the Convention. At the same time, the government in The Hague recognises the insufficiency of the Treaty of Nice and the need to revise it, particularly to help give...

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