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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9420
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS / A look behind the news, by ferdinando riccardi

European Parliament prepares its stance on the new treaty

On 21 May, the European Parliament constitutional affairs committee will approve its draft resolution on the “roadmap for the Union's constitutional process”, and the plenary session will vote on 6 June. The draft report by the two rapporteurs, Enrique Barón Crespo and Elmar Brok, is both ambitious and reasonable. It is ambitious right from its title, because it bears the adjective constitutional; and it is reasonable because it takes account of the opposition or reservations expressed...

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
THE DAY IN POLITICS
GENERAL NEWS
TIMETABLE