France's National Assembly has voted to adopt the EU reform treaty, three years after a French No dealt a fatal blow to the European Constitution.
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Once it is passed, President Nicolas Sarkozy will ratify the treaty.
Hungary, Malta, Slovenia and Romania have already done so. Ireland is the only EU member state due to hold a referendum on the treaty.
'Historic moment'
France's opposition Socialists were split on the issue and an attempt by the party to force a referendum was voted down by the National Assembly on Wednesday night.
President Sarkozy had refused to have a public vote.
Europe Minister Jean-Pierre Jouyet told parliament on Thursday that ratification was a "historic moment for France" and would send a "strong signal" to the rest of Europe before the six-month French presidency of the EU begins in July.
Before the vote could take place, the upper and lower houses of the French parliament met in Congress at Versailles on Monday to delete a reference in the French constitution to the ill-fated EU constitutional treaty.
(BBC)
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