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"en.20041214.8.2-120"2
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"We believe that the European Convention should be granted discharge for 2003, because there are no reasons for bringing the economic report into question. We nonetheless oppose the Convention’s lack of representativeness and undemocratic working methods. Among the Convention’s just over one hundred members, women, young people and critics of the EU were seriously under-represented. The Convention cannot therefore claim to represent the citizens of Europe.
What is more, the Convention’s President, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, and his Praesidium designed policy as they themselves saw fit. Proposals were introduced that have no basis in the working groups or in plenary. No votes took place in plenary, and Giscard himself decided how the majorities looked. We share the analysis made by Gisela Stuart, a British member of the Convention’s Praesidium, in her book ‘The Making of Europe's Constitution’ (Fabian Society, 2003). In her view, the work of the Convention was shaped by an unaccountable political elite that had already decided the final outcome from the outset."@en1
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