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5/5/06

news - The future of Europe: MEPs and MPs debate the EU's constitutional future

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At 3pm on Monday 8 May, President Borrell will formally open two-day meeting of MEPs and MPs on the future of Europe. The meeting is jointly organised by the European Parliament and the Austrian Parliament. Given the "yes" and no" on the Constitutional Treaty, this meeting should outline way out of this impasse.

UK MEPs participating in the meeting summed up their expectations ahead of the meeting: Charles Tannock (Conservative, London) said: "The interests of the people of Europe are best served by a new vision which concentrates on areas where the EU can bring real value added such as enforcing the single market and competition rules, reducing over-regulation and bureaucracy, enforcing environmental and consumer protection, fighting organised crime and international terrorism and co-operating on foreign policy and security issues. There is a real euro-fatigue which has set-in with our electorates who believe the EU to be too distant from their concerns and top-down in its approach. The no votes to the EU Constitution was a wake-up call which Europe's leaders ignore at their peril."

Jim Allister (Democratic Unionist, Northern Ireland) said: I will be pleasantly surprised if this event proves other than another unrealistic endeavour to resuscitate and promote the rejected Constitution.

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