21/06/2007 (Agence Europe) - “The substance of the European constitution must be kept but one could get rid of the symbols”. This “magic formula” referred to be Angela Merkel did not convince German Social Democrat Jo Leinen, president of the EP's constitutional affairs committee. Leinen regards the suppression of symbolic elements as a “political loss”. However, in a “reflection” on changes to the Constitutional Treaty that could pave the way to a solution, Jo Leinen...