Christianity is a blank page in charter for a brave new Europe

POOR old Giscard d’Estaing. There he was with his nice draft European constitution all ready for the Thessaloniki summit on June 20, and what happened?

Christianity is a blank page in charter for a brave new Europe
Wed, 11 Jun, 2003 - 01:00
Ronan Mullen

The smaller member states of the EU ganged up and rejected his plans.

They want the institutional balance already agreed at Nice, and they joined forces with those ungrateful wretches from the new candidate countries temporarily to block his vision for a federal Europe.

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