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"The European Union’s Constitutional Treaty projected ambitions which the Union has not been able to realise to date. The EU has failed in the strategy which was supposed to turn Europe into the world’s most competitive knowledge economy, in the cooperation to combat bird flu and in the implementation of common foreign policy. It is quite understandable that the people of Europe are questioning our aspiration of a fully-fledged Constitution if we cannot even manage to make sound agreements in all those other areas, or if we contravene the agreements that are in place, such as the Stability Pact.
We should be more modest. Let us first carry out the institutional reforms that are really necessary. Those changes, described in Chapter 1 of the Constitutional Treaty of 2004, would then have the character of an ordinary treaty and would obviate the need for a referendum in each Member State.
The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union must also become a treaty document in time. At the moment, it gives the current draft treaty its constitutional overtones precisely where the Union is not ready for them. I personally would have liked to have seen the direct election of the President of the European Commission included. In that way, though, we would at any rate solve the most urgent problems and support both the European Parliament and the national parliaments."@en1
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