login
login

Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7924

16 March 2001
Contents Publication in full By article 1 / 40
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
: A brief account of the debate on the future of Europe

The right formula. The European Parliament's Intergroup for "a Constitution for Europe" has found the right formula. The slogan it has chosen is not "no to the Treaty of Nice" but "no to the spirit of Nice". To reject the Treaty would in practice mean blocking accession negotiations and interrupting the debate finally opened on the future of Europe and, at the same time, giving up several positive aspects of this Treaty. To reject the spirit of Nice, on the other hand, would mean being...

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
THE DAY IN POLITICS
GENERAL NEWS
ECONOMIC INTERPENETRATION