HC Deb 10 June 2003 vol 406 c798W
Mr. Hendrick

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on progress in the Convention on the Future of Europe. [117931]

Mr. MacShane

Valery Giscard d'Estaing has been asked to present, at the 19–20 June Thessaloniki European Council, the final report on the Convention on the Future of Europe. The Government are confident that the convention's final output will be good for the United Kingdom and good for the kind of Europe we want: enlarged, more effective, more accountable and more efficient.

The convention will be followed by an Intergovernmental Conference (IGC), where decisions will be taken by unanimity.