IHT: EU confident of ending constitution debacle by endorsing alternative this week
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EU confident of ending constitution debacle by endorsing alternative this week
Officials were upbeat Monday that EU leaders would end two years of angst over the speed and direction of European integration this week by endorsing a less ambitious version of the defunct European Constitution. "Our confidence is now greater than before" that the 27 leaders would approve a Reform Treaty at a two-day summit in Lisbon, said Manuel Lobo Antunes, the European Affairs minister of Portugal, the country now holding the EU presidency.
He said EU foreign ministers had discussed last-minute hurdles in "an extremely favorable atmosphere."
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