Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister, who chaired the summit, accepted Mr Blair's insistence that member countries keep their vetoes on such issues as tax, social security and judicial co-operation, instead of introducing majority voting as the draft constitution had proposed.

ECONOMIST: A constitution in tatters

Assist in the identification and formulation of development co-operation programmes and projects and participate in the preparation of draft project documents.

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