This may provide the blueprint for a European constitution currently being debated at an EU convention in Brussels.

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The power of the Brussels consensus means that the convention on the future of Europe, whose duty it is to rethink the European Union from first principles, is in fact conducting its debate within tight intellectual boundaries.

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He stressed that the Brussels I regulation goes much further than the Hague Convention, in that it applies to all cross-border disputes, not just online cases.

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Ministers and officials will be coming to Brussels fresh from an informal two-day session at UN climate convention headquarters in Bonn, where they've heard United Nations Environment Programme chief scientist Joseph Alcamo outline a few key issues.

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On occasion of the 10th anniversary of the 2001 Convention, UNESCO is organizing a high-level scientific colloquium in Brussels (13-14 December).

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