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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9502

15 September 2007
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/enlargement/france
Jean-Pierre Jouyet is willing to review obligation to submit any further enlargement to referendum in France

Brussels, 14/09/2007 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 11 September, Jean-Pierre Jouyet, French Secretary of State for European Affairs, suggested that the obligation set out in the French Constitution whereby any new accession to the EU should be put to referendum should be reviewed. “The idea should be looked at again”, said Bernard Poignant, President of the French Socialists at the European Parliament. In a press release, he says that “this method was absurd being valid not just for...

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