I noted from the preface:
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Noting that the European Union was coming to a turning point in its existence, the European Council which met in Laeken, Belgium, on 14 and 15 December 2001 convened the European Convention on the Future of Europe. The Convention was asked to draw up proposals on three subjects: how to bring citizens closer to the European design and European Institutions; how to organise politics and the European political area in an enlarged Union; and how to develop the Union into a stabilising factor and a model in the new world order. Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, President of the Convention, Preface to the Draft Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe, July 2003
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and that Valery was President of France during the Jamaican Rambouillet Accord (Amendments to the Bretton Woods Agreements - Public Law 94-564) in late '75:
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/G/Giscardd.asp
From the State Department Bulletin:
http://www.ecclesia.org/forum/images.../SeizeGold.jpg
Gold was seized as early as 1933 but it took some time to replace it with SDRs or the formal property systems of the people.
Regards,
David Merrill.