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Margot Wallstrom

Ex social-democrat parliamentarian from Sweden (1979-1985), ex ministry of Civil Affairs (1988-1991), Culture (1994-1996), Social Affairs (1996-1998) and former European commissioner for Environmental Issues (1999-2004), Margot Wallstrom is the Swedish European Commissioner for Communications and vice-president of the European Commission.

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“Grass-roots change for Europe”

by Margot Wallstrom

29 June 2005

The European Constitution means the symbolic refounding of the European Union as a community based on democratic principles. The European Constitutional Treaty (ECT) offered more and not less democracy. Therefore, it is sad to see how such democratic text was rejected by France and Holland. (...)