The "Godfather" speaks

Saturday, November 10, 2007
The "Godfather" speaks
Amazingly, it was at
the of October that Valéry Giscard d'Estaing told Le Monde
that the Lisbon treaty and
the Constitution were effectively the same,
but it is only today –
nearly two weeks later,
and on a Saturday morning –
that the BBC Today programme
takes up the story.
Ed Stourton interviews the man
whom he describes as the "Godfather"
of the constitution:
VGD: Let us be very precise about it. You know, the text in Lisbon was written in a different way than the text called Constitution for Europe. When we wrote it, the Constitution, we wrote it directly, article one, article two, article three and so on. What they did in Lisbon is a different work. They took our text, they started from our text and they tries to introduce the different articles or notions into the existing treaties.

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