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(EU) EU/EPP/ROME CONGRESS: EPP adopts "Rome Manifesto", proposing priority actions for EU - In favour of continuing ratification process of European Constitution - Proposing neighbour countries " especially close partnerships" as alternative to accession

Rome, 31/03/2006 (Agence Europe) - The Congress of the European People's Party (CPP), which took place in Rome on 30 and 31 March, adopted its "Rome Manifesto" on Friday afternoon, in which it pleads in favour of "clear priorities" for the European Union (it proposes four of these), for a more transparent and less bureaucratic EU, for the continuation of the process to ratify the Constitutional Treaty and in favour of an "especially close partnership" to be offered- as an alternative to...