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Expanded eu Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-EU-Constitution.html http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-EU-Constitution.html Draft for Expanded EU Unveiled By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 5:11 a.m. ET BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- Former French president Valery Giscard d'Estaing unveiled the latest draft of a constitution the European Union aims to adopt once it adds new members in 2004. The blueprint follows eight months of debate on the union's future by the European Convention, a forum of officials from EU governments, institutions and national legislatures. Giscard d'Estaing is the chairman of the body. The Convention plans to send a final draft to an EU summit in June 2003. The EU leaders want to adopt a constitution for the EU by 2004 when Cyprus, Malta and eight eastern European nations are expected to join the union. The draft, unveiled Monday, contains sweeping changes, not all of which will find favor in the current 15 EU capitals. For instance, it suggests replacing the term EU with ``United States of Europe,'' or -- if that is too ambitious -- simply ``United Europe.'' Giscard d'Estaing said in an address that a much larger EU required ``a constitutional treaty to mark the foundation of a new Europe ... in which all citizens must recognize one another as Europeans.'' Some of the more ambitious creations in the draft charter include: -- A ``Congress of the Peoples of Europe,'' an assembly of European Parliament members and national legislators to oversee EU strategy. -- A European president, to be appointed by EU leaders, who would represent the group before the world. Several smaller countries are opposed because they believe a president would make them second-class EU members and limit their say in EU affairs. -- An ``exit clause'' enabling EU members to leave the club if they wish, and dual nationality that would give EU citizens their own nationality and a ``European'' one. Having a European president would end the current practice of a six-month rotating EU presidency held by individual EU nations. Giscard d'Estaing said there was a ``very broad consensus'' for ending the current system.

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