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Paris sees no spirit of compromise on Constitution

French prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin said yesterday that he saw no willingness to compromise on the Constitution, according to Die Welt.

The comments - made during a radio interview - come as foreign ministers continue to thrash out tricky remaining issues such as voting weights and a reference to Christianity in the preamble of the text.

On this latter point, French foreign minister Michel Barnier, firmly repeated Paris' lin...

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