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Germany Seeks to Revive EU Constitution by 2009, Merkel Says - by Rainer Buergin
The German government will seek to revive the European Union's constitution and have it in place before the next European parliamentary elections in 2009, Chancellor Angela Merkel said. Germany assumes the six-month rotating presidency of the European Union on Jan. 1, and ``naturally'' the constitutional treaty will be on the agenda, Merkel said today after a meeting of the German Cabinet attended by European Commission President Jose Barroso. ``We need a constitutional treaty and we need it before the next European election'' due in mid-2009. ``That's why we set ourselves a timeframe,'' Merkel said. ``The German presidency should have the goal of facilitating agreement on a roadmap, a timeframe, a way to proceed, and I want us to be very ambitious in engaging this goal.''
German efforts to revive the constitution may ease concerns about further European political integration raised after the rejection of the EU constitution last year in referendums held by France and the Netherlands, two of the bloc's founding members.
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