'Get-out' clause triggers debate

  • 2003-05-01
  • Jitendra Joshi
BRUSSELSThe convention drafting an EU constitution wound up its stormiest week yet April 25 by calling for an exit clause to prevent chaos should a member state decide to quit the bloc.Rejecting arguments that such a clause would play into the hands of Euroskeptics, most delegates said a clear path out of the European Union should be enshrined in its first-ever constitution.The issue was debated at the end of a week that saw the convention's chairman, former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, assailed for proposals seen as shifting the balance of power too much in favor of the EU's...
 
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