First draft of EU’s new constitution rejected by Britain

The first draft articles of a new Constitution for the European Union were published on 6 February 2003. Britain immediately labelled parts of the draft 'unacceptable' and claimed it went further than anticipated towards creating a federal Europe.

http://european-convention.eu.int/docs/Treaty/cv00528.en03.pdf http://european-convention.eu.int/docs/Treaty/cv00528.en03.pdf

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