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"Mr President, now that the financial crisis at the December European Council has been successfully headed off, we are facing the tasks of overcoming the institutional crisis and of putting the Union on the kind of footing that will enable it to address the challenges posed by the globalised world. I warmly welcome the fact that one of Austria’s stated priorities is to put the European Constitution back on the agenda. In this regard, however, I should like to warn of the pitfalls lying in wait along the route that the Commission – and Parliament, albeit only in part – have chosen to follow, which is to hold more and more debates on citizens’ expectations, and subsequently to prepare a new text that would seek both to resolve the issue of institutional reform and to address all of Europe’s economic, social and security-related problems. If we strike out on that path we shall be repeating the mistake that lay at the root of last year’s failed referendums, when anyone harbouring reservations over the EU’s internal policies rallied in opposition to the Constitution, irrespective of their views on the Union’s institutional framework. We made the mistake of putting forward for ratification a Constitution which, alongside the rules on the functioning of institutions, also contained a summary of all common policies.
What we now need, ahead of the forthcoming enlargement and in the light of ongoing changes to the international order, is to separate the constitutional framework, namely the first and second parts of the constitutional treaty, from the common policies in the third part. The first and second parts of the Constitution were not the subject of debate before the referendum, and their ratification would enable us to seek workable solutions to the most contentious issues currently affecting the continent, by reforming the rules governing institutional competencies. If we wish to solve everything in one go, we shall once again end up solving nothing. The main outcome of the Austrian Presidency should be a workable plan, whereby debate over the reform of Europe’s institutions is kept separate from the general debate on other problems affecting Europe."@en1
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