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". – The UK Labour Members of the PSE Group welcome this report without endorsing all of its detail. We think a re-organising of the Treaties and their simplification would make it easier for citizens to see clearly the field of EU responsibilities – and their limits – as well as the procedures for exercising these responsibilities. We welcome the idea that future changes, after Nice, could be prepared by a convention involving national parliaments, the European Parliament and government representatives, as recently tried, successfully, with the convention that prepared the Charter of Rights. Ratification, however, must be up to each Member State in accordance with its own procedures and traditions.
We also do not wish to pre-empt this work by deciding now what should be in the new constitution, such as whether the Charter should be included.
We have a constitution already in the form of the Treaties, in so far as they lay down the competences of the Union, its procedures and the composition and powers of its institutions. However they are not codified, they are unclear and they are insufficient as regards efficiency and democracy.
We welcome attempts to improve them."@en1
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