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“Freedom of expression and elections may await in Iraq, at least for the time being”: that’s the title of an article in which David Rohle, in the Herald Tribune (19/6), analyses the turbulent situation of Iraq in the aftermath of the war, after the clashes with the American army in recent days. “If elections were […]

According to another Eurobarometer poll on attitudes towards discrimination, the figures suggest that only one European out of three has the necessary information about anti-discrimination rights. Increasing knowledge of rights is one of the basic objectives of a new five-year campaign that will involve the whole EU and combat discrimination based on race, religion or […]

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While the Convention on the future of Europe prepares to unveil the results of its own work to the Salonica Summit that opens on 20 June, the preliminary data of the opinion poll carried out by the last Eurobarometer – the complete results won’t be released till July – attest to wide agreement among EU […]

The Commission for the environment, with the approval of the report presented by Laura Gonzàlez Alvarez, gave a favourable reception to the communication of the Commission “Towards a strategy for the protection and conservation of the marine environment”, but also affirmed that some objectives contained in the document are not ambitious enough. The MEPs therefore […]

On 18 June the EU senior representative for foreign policy and common security, Javier Solana, intervened during the plenary session of the European Parliament on the security strategy for the EU that is being presented at the Salonica Summit today. The debate on the implementation of the UN programme aimed at curbing the circulation of […]

On 18 June the EU senior representative for foreign policy and common security, Javier Solana, intervened during the plenary session of the European Parliament on the security strategy for the EU that is being presented at the Salonica Summit today. The debate on the implementation of the UN programme aimed at curbing the circulation of […]

On 12 June the Culture Commission of the European Parliament approved a draft report on the application of the “Television without frontiers” (Twf) directive. The text, which will be examined by the European Parliament in September this year, underlines the need to achieve a reform of the aforesaid directive, taking into account the technological development […]

Preamble – The lack of any explicit reference to Christian roots was temporarily substituted by a new formulation of paragraph 2 in which “the cultural, religious and humanistic legacies of Europe” are mentioned. Values – Included among the values of the Union are “respect for the dignity and rights of man, freedom, democracy, equality, rule […]

The last plenary assembly of the Convention on the future of Europe approved the draft version of the European Constitution on 13 June. According to almost all the members of the Convention, the text – single and without opt-outs – represents a ‘compromise based on the highest common denominator’ and a shared basis for negotiation […]

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Valery Giscard d’Estaing will present the EU Summit of Heads of State and of Government in Salonica with the draft European Constitution on 20 June. As regards the diverging opinions on the quality of the document and the possibilities of the Intergovernmental Conference in October to improve the draft, SirEurope met Zdenek Werner , delegate […]