What issues in the current draft is Italy not satisfied with?
Gianfranco Fini: It should be remembered that the Intergovernmental Conference which opens on Saturday is unlike those which precede it. The Convention has been preparing for the Conference for the past sixteen months and not to take this fact into consideration and the agreements reached, would be like a football team saying that what had happened in the first half was irrelevant and to suggest re-starting the match all over again. The position of the Italian Government on the issues raised during the work of the convention has been expressed throughout. Some of our views have been accepted, others rejected, and others have ended in compromise. We believe that the final document drawn up at Salonika provides an excellent starting point for the Inter-Governmental Conference. However, as we have already stressed to our partners regarding voting procedure: ‘Let’s remember that voting at IGC must be unanimous’. The Italian Presidency is therefore not prepared to start a ‘shopping list” in
