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"Mr President, next week’s European Council summit will be one of the most important in the history of European integration. We all realise that a wrecked Constitution would leave Europe as it was before the start of the ratification process. If we wish to avoid Europe getting bogged down in a long-term crisis, the Council will have to be vigorous in taking the lead.
There are two possible solutions available to us now. If the French President and the Dutch Prime Minister say that they will resubmit the document for approval, then we shall continue with integration. If they are unable to do so, we shall create a political basis by separating the first and second parts of the Constitution from individual common policies. The Convention, of which I was a member, came to the view that if the EU were to achieve effective reform, it would need not only to organise relations between institutions and incorporate the Charter of Fundamental Rights, but also to consolidate existing agreements, including policies. However, neither the Convention nor the subsequent Intergovernmental Conference had the political will to separate these two problems from each other.
We are here, Mr President, because France and the Netherlands rejected the Constitution. Debate in those countries revealed dissatisfaction with many current European policies, and not with the institutional solution that the Constitution would have brought about. Citizens were forced to decide on both questions at once, however. The European Council should therefore take independent decisions on the separation of the constitutional framework in Chapters 1 and 2 and its submission for ratification.
The first and second parts of the Constitution are a balanced document upon which consensus was reached within both the Convention and the Intergovernmental Conference. Everything now depends on whether or not the European Council can find the will to take a courageous step forward. If we cannot, we risk the acute crisis we are facing with regard to the ratification of the Constitution becoming a chronic crisis affecting the entire integration project."@en1
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