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I do indeed endorse unreservedly the draft European Constitution, and it was with enthusiasm that I voted in favour of my colleagues’ excellent report. This draft is no doubt a compromise but it also represents a considerable advance.
The Union of 25 will be stabilised by having a President appointed for two and a half years instead of a presidency that rotates every six months. A Minister of Foreign Affairs will be Europe’s voice in the world. The Charter of Fundamental Rights has at last been incorporated into the institutional framework. The citizens enjoy the right of petition (capable of being translated into European law with the support of over 1 million signatures), and, in the social sphere, for the first time, the Union sets itself targets for shared progress in a social market economy.
In short, the European Union is becoming more democratic, more transparent, clearer and more effective. It may be, though, that the hardest task awaits us yet: to complete ratification in all our Member States, and hence to explain it in such a way as to persuade Europe’s citizens. I am also delighted that, in this nervous time for Europe, a recent survey reveals that the Belgian public are ready to go into battle for a ‘yes’ to the Constitutional Treaty; 80% of them are in favour of it!"@en1
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