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Friday, 02 November 2007
Portugal and Brussels are being accused ‘pathetic vanity’ for refusing to compromise over the location of the signing ceremony for the European Constitution Reform Treaty.

Portugal, as current holders of the EU presidency are pushing for the signing ceremeony (on December 13) to be held in Portugal. However December 13 is the first day of the EU summit being held in Brussels, and as such Belgium is pushing for the signing ceremony to be moved to Brussels.

The compromise? All 27 EU leaders, their staff and EU staff will travel to Lisbon in the morning for the signing ceremony, then they will all travel from Lisbon to Brussels for the summit that evening.
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Guardian/ICM poll - 53% say Brown is wrong to rule out referendum
Wednesday, 31 October 2007
From The Guardian

“Voters …. remain broadly in favour of a referendum on the European treaty. Of those questioned, 53% said Mr Brown was wrong to rule it out, including 39% of Labour supporters. Only 25% say he has made the right decision, including 47% of Labour supporters.”
 
The Economist’s Charlemagne on the EU Treaty
Tuesday, 30 October 2007
The new EU treaty creates three competing posts for the title of “Mr Europe”

“….. Desperate to avoid further referendums, EU leaders rushed for the safety of the old ways: cramming the innovations of the constitution into an unreadable treaty, designed for rapid approval by national parliaments. The leaders have what they wanted, a new treaty, but glumness is natural. Dreams of an uplifting, revolutionary arrival (think New Age birthing pool, taped whale song and candles) ended up as the legal equivalent of a nasty forceps delivery …..”
 
Lisbon Treaty made to avoid referendum - Giscard
Tuesday, 30 October 2007
From EUObserver :

    The EU’s new treaty is the same as the rejected constitution - only the format has been changed to avoid referendums, says Valery Giscard d’Estaing, architect of the constitution.

    In an open letter published in Le Monde and a few other European newspapers over the weekend, the former French president seeks to clarify the difference between former draft constitution - which was shelved after French and Dutch voters rejected the text in 2005 - and the new Lisbon Treaty which EU leaders agreed earlier this month.

    “Looking at the content, the result is that the institutional proposals of the constitutional treaty … are found complete in the Lisbon Treaty, only in a different order and inserted in former treaties,” Mr Giscard d’Estaing said.
 
Brown could force Tory anti-treaty stance into pro-Europe stance in one swoop
Monday, 29 October 2007
From The London Times:

Top Tories fear vote on EU membership

Gordon Brown could trump calls for a referendum on the EU treaty by offering a vote on Britain’s membership of the European Union, senior Tories fear (Francis Elliott writes).

David Cameron warned the Prime Minister last night that voters would see through a move that would force the Tories to join Labour to campaign to keep Britain in the EU. A vote on Britain’s membership, a Lib Dem policy, would split the Tories.

Speaking in Berlin, Mr Cameron said: “Labour has to understand the people were offered a vote on the constitution. If they offer a different vote, people will think even less of them than they do now.” The Tory leader’s visit to Germany was in part intended to disprove Mr Brown’s claim that he is without friends in Europe.
 
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