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Thu 11 Nov 2002Open contempt for Convention on Future of Europe may cost Irish dearIreland risks increasing marginalisation in the discussions at the Convention on the Future of Europe, writes Denis Staunton, in BrusselsOver dinner in Brussels last week, a group of ministers met to discuss Europe's future. The host was the Dutch European Affairs Minister, Mr Atzo Nikolai, and almost all of the EU's smaller member states were represented, along with a handful of candidate countries.