The final years of Jacques Chirac s presidency produced mostly deadlock, crowned in May 2005 by the French No vote to the EU s draft constitutional treaty.

The Constitutional Treaty provides solid foundations for our shared future.

Indeed, from the start, the architects of the Union's Constitutional Treaty never seriously expected that their draft would endure in the form in which they wrote it.

In mid 2005, voters in France and the Netherlands rejected the EU s draft constitutional treaty, partly motivated by fear that enlargement was going too fast and too far.

Constitutional change on this scale would normally require a new European treaty.

It is essential to reaffirm the normative essence of the Constitutional Treaty to protect the greatest achievement of the Constitutional Convention.

Draft article 18 Special treaty provisions

In operative paragraph 15 replace the phrase to develop a draft treaty with the phrase to agree to a draft treaty .

The Constitutional Treaty includes guarantees to ensure that the EU adheres to this principle strictly.

We encounter obstacles such as the rejection of the European Constitutional Treaty in two referendums.

For all these reasons, the institutional reforms that are contained in the constitutional treaty are still urgently needed.

In Europe, the Vatican lobbied for acknowledgement of God in the preamble to the proposed European Constitutional Treaty.

All manner of new legal and constitutional difficulties constantly arise. Is an amendment to the EU treaty required?

At a European level, the provisions of the draft Constitutional Treaty of the European Union institutionally strengthen equality, which is generally conceived as a value of the Union, while, more specifically, the promotion of gender equality remains one of the Union's aims as has already been established in the Amsterdam Treaty.

Such arguments were deployed successfully during the 2005 referenda on the Constitutional Treaty in France and the Netherlands, and in Ireland during the referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.

Third, they cite treaty related and constitutional difficulties in establishing rules and procedures that would simulate a fiscal union.

On October 29, leaders of the European Union will gather in Rome to sign the Union's new Constitutional Treaty.

First, the Constitutional Treaty guarantees that the Union's institutions will respect the fundamental rights of everyone within the EU.

The introduction of a common European currency was successful political integration by means of a constitutional treaty a failure.

The solution to the impasse over Europe s Constitutional Treaty certainly does not lie in the direction of diminishing its scope, and thus perhaps making it just an ordinary treaty.

The Lisbon Treaty was the compromise agreed by EU leaders in the aftermath of the rejection of the Constitutional Treaty in popular referendums in France and the Netherlands in 2005.

The very reason that led a majority of the French to say no to the referendum on the European Union s draft Constitutional Treaty in May 2005 may lead them to vote for Bayrou, the most pro European of all candidates.

The Constitutional Treaty is a reflection of our wish to continue in the same vein, to carry on working together.

Unease about the EU s future is, of course, understandable, especially given the uncertainty surrounding efforts to revive the Constitutional Treaty.

That way, if a small minority of EU governments prove unable to ratify the treaty, it would not be torpedoed the way that its predecessor, the Constitutional Treaty, was in 2005.

In February 2005, the countries of Central Asia finalized the draft treaty.

In addition, the Constitutional Treaty gives citizens the right to ask the European Commission to take action on a specific point.

At the European Union s coming EU summit, debate will center on whether to go forward with a mini EU Constitutional Treaty.

Indeed, from the start, the architects of the Union's Constitutional Treaty never seriously expected that their draft would endure in the form in which they wrote it. Instead, they saw themselves as following Europe's long established pattern of step by step integration.

In my country, Argentina, each province can, in accordance with a constitutional mandate, draft its own traffic legislation.

Terrorism in London and the French and Dutch rejections of the European Union s Constitutional Treaty have brought Euro pessimism back into fashion.

In fact, the Constitutional Treaty defines more clearly which competencies should be shared between the EU and its member states, and how.

Even the constitutional treaty, which should have been a clarion call for all Europeans, was allowed to become bogged down in minutia.

PARIS In 2005, two founding members of the European Union, France and the Netherlands, rejected by popular referendum the EU s proposed constitutional treaty.

In sum, the Constitutional Treaty firmly enshrines fundamental rights in law, and also makes the EU more democratic, more transparent, and more effective.

BRUSSELS In 2005, France and the Netherlands both voted no to a constitutional treaty for the European Union, derailing years of integration efforts.

The constitutional history of Canada begins with the 1763 Treaty of Paris, in which France ceded most of New France to Great Britain.

Meanwhile, the draft treaty and constitution were being circulated around Tokelau for further discussion.

Typical examples of this are the stalled Lisbon Strategy, the incomplete Economic and Monetary Union, and now, following the Irish public s blocking maneuver, the uncertain fate of the new EU Constitutional Treaty (the Lisbon Treaty ).

In 2005, a timid attempt to foster political integration by adopting a constitutional treaty was defeated in popular referenda in France and the Netherlands.

The French No to the referendum on Europe s constitutional treaty in May 2005 revealed the depth of Europe s crisis, it did not create it.

Indeed, the older and more embedded democracy is in European countries, the more skeptical are their citizens towards the claims of the constitutional treaty.

Maybe the time has come to formally introduce such a draft treaty in the CD?

But there will be no new initiatives on integration until leaders in the countries that rejected the Constitutional Treaty are ready for a new try.

Indeed, what Europe lost, first and foremost, with the rejection of the constitutional treaty is now obvious its faith in itself and its common future.