16/01/2008 (Agence Europe) - The Independence and Democracy group has produced a 15-page booklet in French, entitled “Constitution européenne (bis): après le camouflet, le camouflage” (“European Constitution b: adding insult to injury”- our translation). In his introduction, MEP Patrick Louis (ID, France) stresses: “Our role (…) is to raise awareness of what should be called a violation of universal suffrage”. In 10 questions, Christophe Beaudouin, ID adviser and director of the Observatoire de l'Europe après le Non (Observatory of Europe after the No-Vote), draws his readers' attention to the similarities between the Constitutional Treaty which was rejected in 2005, and the Reform Treaty. In conclusion, the ID group puts forward four “proposals to break the deadlock”. Among these, Christophe Beaudouin calls for an obligation to hold a referendum for any new wave of enlargement of the Union, or to proclaim the precedence of the French Constitution over the “law of the European Union in all its elements”. He also calls for the creation of a “systematic Parliamentary control procedure on all draft directives and regulations, together with a debate to be followed by a vote by the Assemblée Nationale and the Senate on a resolution to decide whether or not France should take part in the European legislation proposed”. (L.B.S.)