Period of reflection' ends with EU no wiser on treaty - by George Parkerin Vienna
Exactly one year after France threw the European Union into turmoil by voting Non to the union's constitution, EU foreign ministers will concede tomorrow they still have no idea how or whether to revive the half-dead treaty.Ursula Plassnik, Austria's foreign minister, admitted in an interview with the Financial Times that the year-long "period of reflection" which followed the French vote on May 29 last year has failed to clarify the situation.
"Now is not the moment to come to a definite decision," she says. Her fellow foreign ministers, meeting in the cloistered seclusion of a monastery near Vienna, are expected to endorse that conclusion.
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