Straw makes EU constitution case
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UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw unveils the government's White Paper on the EU constitution.
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European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso warned Britain that it risks damaging its own interests if it blocks a deal on a revamped EU constitution, in an interview published Friday.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair has a mountain to climb if he is to persuade a sceptical public to back the controversial new EU constitution, recent polls here have revealed.
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The question to be asked in the referendum on the EU constitution will be "Should the United Kingdom approve the treaty establishing a constitution for the European Union?", the Government said.
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Tony Blair has signed the new EU constitution as Foreign Secretary Jack Straw indicated any referendum on the treaty will not be held until 2006.
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ROME European leaders on Friday signed the EUâs first constitution, which is designed to give the union a sharper international profile and speed up decision-making in a club now embracing 25 nations.
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European leaders on Friday tried to revive efforts to adopt the proposed European Union constitution, which many declared dead last year after it was rejected by voters in France and the Netherlands.
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Gordon Brown defends the new EU treaty as David Cameron says a referendum is needed to "restore trust".
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Newspapers repeated their calls for a referendum on the new EU treaty on Thursday as Prime Minister Gordon Brown was set to attend a two-day summit of the bloc's leaders in Lisbon.
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Parts of the Lisbon Treaty, signed by Gordon Brown, are the same as the abandoned EU Constitution, UK MPs say.
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It was reported Sunday that a British referendum on the European Union constitution will be held in March 2006.
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Europe's papers look ahead to today's signing of the new EU constitution in Rome
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Commons leader Jack Straw says an inquiry into the Iraq war will be held "in due course".
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Justice Secretary Jack Straw signals that ministers are ready to draw up a written constitution for Britain.
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STRASBOURG, France  - The European Parliament  overwhelmingly endorsed the European Union's first constitution  on Wednesday but the treaty will only come into force if all 25  member states ratify it, several by referendums.
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Jack Straw says it was right to join the Iraq war even if "some of the information" used to make the case was wrong.
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Spain is about to become the first EU state to hold a referendum to ratify it. The fate of Europe's first continent-wide constitution will be put to the test in 10 referendums over the next 18 months.