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6/14/07

The European Union | A constitutional conundrum

Economist.com

"A constitutional conundrum

Jun 14th 2007
From The Economist print edition
A new European treaty is acceptable only if its contents are kept to a bare minimum

Peter Schrank

OLD treaties never die. That seems a fair conclusion to draw from the efforts being made by European Union leaders meeting at next week's summit to draw up a slimmed-down version of the draft constitution originally signed in October 2004. After all, this constitution was rejected by voters in France and the Netherlands in referendums in mid-2005. Since European treaties have to be ratified unanimously before coming into force, this should have been enough to kill the constitution. Yet it is rising, Lazarus-like, from the dead."

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