Brussels, 11/07/2007 (Agence Europe) - Adopting a report on Wednesday by Jo Leinen (PES, Germany) by 526 to 138 with 26 abstentions, the European Parliament backed the idea of an intergovernmental conference (IGC) on reform of the treaties. The EP welcomed the fact that the mandate preserves most of the Constitutional Treaty but confirmed the reservations already expressed (see Europe 9465). The MEPs regretted that the mandate amounts to abandoning some important factors, which it listed, on...