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3/1/06

Strong support for pressing on with EU constitution

EUPolitix.com

"Strong support for pressing on with EU constitution

There is widespread support for cherry-picking key elements of the EU constitution despite the rejection of the text by French and Dutch voters.

A survey of EU politicians, journalists, senior officials, NGOs and business leaders shows widespread support for maintaining core institutional elements of the constitution, such as a single diplomatic service and an EU foreign minister.

And 70 per cent of the respondents said that such a move would not be “undemocratic”, despite the ‘no’ votes.

“Electors rejected for a variety of reasons a complex text, not its constituent elements,” Philippe De Schoutheete, Belgium’s former permanent representative to the EU, told Brussels-based think-tank Friends of Europe."

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