Former French PM Jospin calls for yes vote on EU constitution
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France's former prime minister Lionel Jospin entered the bitter debate in the opposition Socialist party over the EU's proposed constitutional treaty Wednesday, urging a vote in favour at a referendum planned ...
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MEPs call on EU member states to hold simultaneous referendums on the new European Constitution.
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PRAGUE- A referendum on the European constitution could be held in the Czech Republic simultaneously with the parliamentary elections in 2006, Prime Minister Stanislav Gross told journalists upon his return ...
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The French parliament ratified a European Union reform treaty to overhaul the bloc's institutions on Friday, nearly three years after France rejected a planned EU constitution in a referendum.
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President Jacques Chirac said that France would vote in favour of starting membership talks with Turkey when the EU met in December.
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Germany's opposition conservatives and the new head of France's ruling center-right party, Nicolas Sarkozy, on Saturday took a common stand in favour of the European Union's new constitution but against full ...
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LONDON, Dec 3  - The vote by French Socialists to back the EU constitution bodes well for its ratification, even though the outcome of a referendum in 2005 is still uncertain, major British newspapers said Friday.
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After a meeting with German Chancellor Gerhard SchrÃ¶der, French President Jacques Chirac said Friday he supports a change to his country&#39;s constitution to allow for a referendum on Turkish EU membership.
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ROME, Oct 29  - French President Jacques Chirac urged the head of the incoming European Commission Friday to take &quot;the appropriate decisions&quot; to resolve a row over his EU executive team which has left the EU in limbo.
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Leaders of the European Union's 27 nations gathered to discuss a new EU treaty Thursday, two years after French and Dutch voters rejected a draft constitution.
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France's President Nicolas Sarkozy calls for a strong Europe to rebuild a more harmonious world order.
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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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French Socialists cast their ballots Wednesday on whether they supported the new European constitution, in a referendum that may well shape the future of the French left as well.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy late Tuesday said the EU backing for former French finance minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn to lead the International Monetary Fund was &quot;good news for France, good news for Europe.&quot;
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Former French president Valery Giscard D&#39;Estaing said on Thursday that Turkish membership of the European Union (EU) would change the European project&#39;s nature and suggested a
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France's opposition Socialist Party voted in favor of the European Union's proposed constitution, party leaders announced Thursday, a victory for the party's moderate, pro-European wing.
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The vote by French Socialists to back the EU constitution bodes well for its ratification, even though the outcome of a referendum in 2005 is still uncertain, major British newspapers said Friday.