BRUSSELS, April 17, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, the former French President who chairs the convention on Europe’s future, has aligned himself with the EU’s largest member states who want a powerful new EU presidency to wield influence on the world stage.
Smaller members prefer a rotating system in which each country serves six months as EU president, but it appears their preference will be defeated in the coming negotiations. The creation of a super-president, said The Times, “would help to settle the decades-old question posed by Henry Kissinger of whom to call in Europe in an emergency.” The president would have a new foreign minister reporting to the European Commission and EU heads of government. For Times coverage: https://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-649651,00.html For reports on the exclusion of any reference to God from the draft EU Constitution: from the BBC News: https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2734345.stm from the Christian Science Monitor: https://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0410/p07s01-woeu.htm