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June 06, 2003
Hain leads fightback to secure permanent EU president Britain was last night leading a fightback to secure a permanent president in the EU's new constitution as negotiations drew to a close.
Peter Hain, Tony Blair's representative on the Brussels convention, vowed to resist attempts to strip the new post of its powers.
The Welsh secretary warned that failure to agree would mean that governments would ignore the work done by Valery Giscard d'Estaing over the past 15 months.
The convention is drawing up a constitution to define the powers of an EU enlarging to 25 members next year, but the final treaty has to be agreed by all member states.
Read the whole article on the Guardian's website
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