Speech: Building a New Consensus for Europe

The full text of European Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson's Fabian Europe Lecture 2005, in which one of the most influential figures in European and British politics offers a highly topical assessment of how European debates about economic reform and the future of Europe's social model, enlargement and democratic legitimacy need to change in the wake of the French and Dutch referendums rejecting the EU's Constitutional Treaty

Fabian Society: Reaction to Peter Mandelson's speech, June 2005 http://www.fabian-society.org.uk/press_office/display.asp?id=448&type=news&cat=43

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