Referendum: Jacques Delors & Franco Frattini: er bestaat WEL een 'Plan B'

[Dr. Marc-Alexander Fluks]

REPLY TO: D66 at nic.surfnet.nl

Bron:   Euobserver.com
Datum:  17 mei 2005
Auteur: Honor Mahony
URL:    http://www.grondweteuropa.nl/9326000/1f/j4nvgjok6iwsea9_j9vvgjnazrhmix9/vh0jb566krzq?nctx=vgjndazgatu4&ntop=10

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Former head of the Commission, Jacques Delors, who is in favour of the
Constitution, sparked a furore by telling Le Monde last week that there is
likely to be a Plan B if France votes No.

'I refuse to put things in black and white. The duty of the truth means I
have to say there could be [a Plan B], but we have to explain the extreme
difficulty of the problem', he said leading opponents of the Constitution
to say that the text can be renegotiated if rejected.

This is also a view shared by Franco Frattini, the EU justice commissioner
who said that the debate on the Treaty would have to be re-opened if
French citizens voted No.

However, since then other EU politicians have tried to play down this
option insisting that agreement was so difficult to reach in the first
place that it would be impossible to renegotiate.

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(c) 2005 Euobserver.com

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