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European Constitution

Asked if the Prime Minister believed it was important to agree the EU Constitution by June, the PMOS said that the Prime Minister’s view had not changed since first expressing it at the Brussels Council last December. As he had said at the time, he would like to see an EU Constitution because he believed that it was in this country’s interest for Europe to move forward under arrangements which made an EU at twenty-five operate more effectively. That said, he also believed that a Constitution could only move forward if it respected and reflected our national interests. We were currently in a negotiation and people should let it continue. As he had said this morning, we acknowledged that negotiations tended to go through different phases. That was the whole point of them. Pressed as to whether the Prime Minister would like to see the negotiations concluded by the end of June, the PMOS said that we had indicated to the Irish Presidency that we wanted to agree an EU Constitution as soon as possible. However, as we had underlined at the time, we would only agree to it if it respected our position.

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