For valery giscard d'Estaing, chairman of the convention on Europe's future, the European Union's draft constitution that he unveiled on May 26th presents a unique chance to set the EU'S course for the next 50 years. For Peter Hain, the British government's man at the convention, it is a mere "tidying-up exercise"-consolidating generations of EU law into a single, comprehensible document. For Britain's Daily Mail, the draft is a "blueprint for tyranny". But for Elmar Brok, a German member of the convention and an ardent federalist, it is an "extraordinary disappointment" and an unravelling of the federalist dream. And Romano Prodi, the European Commission's boss, moans that the draft "lacks vision and ambition".
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