The European Union's 15 countries, Austria included, are having to change the club's rules to suit a widening membership. But wider does not, for the moment, mean deeper. It starts on February 14th, it ends in December, and if you hear nothing more about it between those two dates then many European Union governments will be well pleased. The event in question is a constitutional conference—an inter-governmental conference, or IGC, in eu jargon—at which representatives from the Union's 15 governments, sometimes foreign ministers and sometimes high civil servants, will meet to hammer out yet another new treaty.
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