The draft EU Constitution and policies on migration and asylum are the focus of articles in the international press on the Thessaloniki European Council. Another issue widely covered was the text on European security policy to be presented by EU High Representative for CFSP Javier Solana.

"The greater area of Thessaloniki is being called on to host an important European Summit in the current global conjuncture. The participation of citizens’ peace movements, of all those who express views about the different aspects of globalisation, in a debate of such importance for the present and future of the world, is only natural. We want fair and progressive globalisation, based on valid rules of international legitimacy, on the peaceful coexistence of different cultures and religions, on balanced development, globalisation which reinstalls human values at the epicentre of issues, which puts humans before profit.