Letter to the Editor

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Letters to the Editor, The Economist, June 11th 2005

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"SIR - Having re-read your 2000 attempt, perhaps it could be amended and used as a basis for a new attempt ("Our Constitution for Europe" (http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=403911), October 28th 2000). It is about the right length and contains many excellent ideas.

"If you teamed up with publications of comparable quality across the EU and had a large online debate on which the EU citizens could comment and suggest amendments (but with an overall word limit of 4000), then you might well come up with something workable.

"It is clear that a solution imposed by the political elite will not be accepted - something crafted by a European-wide town meeting over the web might be."

Nicholas Beale - London