Back to basics
In two articles on the European Union, we look first at moves to clothe it with a written constitution and then on how some countries in the club want to keep its welfare-minded character
HERE is the good news for Eurosceptics: a plot is afoot to abolish the Maastricht treaty on European union. And here is the bad news: it would be replaced by another treaty, which might well turn into a fully fledged EU constitution.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Back to basics”
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