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2/6/06

Guardian: Whatever happened to ... the EU constitution referendum?

Guardian

Whatever happened to ... the EU constitution referendum?

"The current Austrian presidency has the difficult task of attempting to put the constitution back on the EU's agenda. This includes the thorny issue of rewriting the offending passages to please all 25 countries. The original text took 17 months for the 105 members of the Convention on the Future of Europe to draft.

If, as now seems likely, a new text isn't agreed until 2007, UK voters eagerly anticipating their first referendum on Europe since 1975 might well find themselves in a very different political landscape. Will Gordon Brown honour the pledges of his predecessor? And will David Cameron - in a policy area where his views are even more opaque than elsewhere - end up crying "No, no, no" like the handbagging leader he is trying to distance his party from?"

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