MEPs call for EU constitution re-run in France
France should try again in two years to ratify the EU constitution, said the leader of the European Parliament’s biggest political grouping on Wednesday. Hans-Gert Poettering, chairman of the EPP-ED group of centre-right MEPs, is suggesting that French presidential elections in 2007 could be a key factor.
Europe’s centre-right believe that a likely change of French leader should create a new political climate more conducive to either a fresh referendum or parliamentary ratification. “The signals I’m hearing from France is that a new president in 2007 would open a new route,” he said. Poettering denies that he is urging the ditching of current French President Jacques Chirac – himself a member of the centre-right EPP-ED pan-European grouping.
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