01/06/2007 (Agence Europe) - After Italy at the start of this week, (see EUROPE 9434), it's the turn of Spain - another member state which has already ratified the Constitutional Treaty - to give its backing to the idea of a “simplified treaty” for the EU. During a visit by French President Nicolas Sarkozy to Madrid on Thursday 31 May, Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero stressed that there had to be agreement on the main elements of such a “core treaty” at the...