French Parliament Tackles EU Constitution
Just to drive home the point made in the previous post, why is it that if the EU Constitution is not the basis of a European State the French need to change the French Constitution to make way for the EU Constituion?
ABC News: French Parliament Tackles EU Constitution
PARIS Feb 28, 2005 — France’s two chambers of parliament meet Monday in a special joint session to clear the way for a referendum on the European Union’s constitution.
Meeting at the Versailles Palace outside Paris, both houses must back changes to the French constitution required for the EU treaty vote, a week after Spanish voters overwhelmingly endorsed the charter for the 25-nation bloc.
French President Jacques Chirac was expected to secure the three-fifths majority required. All major parties back the EU constitution and both houses already have passed the measure by large majorities in their respective houses, the Senate and National Assembly.
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Can we find out exactly what changes have to made to their constitution? And why?
Might give us a nice crisp summary of its constitutional effect.
I am sure that they will not all be translatable directly to the UK, but worth looking at.