A Quote by Jean-Pierre Raffarin
I think that the proposed constitution is one of the European legal documents with the strongest social dimension I have seen since I began following European issues.
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European centralism, European statism, the communitization of sovereign debt, a Europeanization of social systems and of the minimum wage would be the wrong way.
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