During the meeting the Minister D'Alema declared to be in favour of a European referendum on the Constitution. He added that Italy in the European Council will support the European Constitution together with the vanguard group that has already approved it.

The European Council talks will not be easy but Italia is not available to low profile compromise as Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi announced in last speech in front of the European Parliament.

The petition for a European referendum can be signed on line to the following web site: http://www.europeanreferendum.eu

The campaign was launched in Berlin in March 2007.

The photo gallery of a demonstration for a European referendum held on March 23rd in Rome in front of the Italian Senate: http://www.mfe.it/img/2007/roma2303/destination/index.htm

During the public action for a European referendum held in Rome the 23rd of March the ex President of the European Convention Giscard d'Estaing signed the petition for a European referendum Giscard d'Estaing sign the petition for a European referendum