” “"Parliament should drive the European council to take determined measures to tackle the current constitutional crisis". Andrew Duff, British EU MP, urges the Assembly of the 25 member states to take position in favour of completing the constitutional process instead of "relapsing into the same listlessness as that of the Council and the Commission". Duff was the author, along with his Austrian colleague Voggenhuber, of last January’s parliamentary report to "save" the charter signed in 2004. In the week the subject is addressed by the plenary session in Strasbourg and by the summit of the heads of state and government of the 25 member states, he states that he approves of Finland’s effort to ratify the Constitution. "Privately, everyone claims this act can never be enforced specifies the Liberal-Democratic delegate -; now, the time has come to state it openly". Duff suggests that the EU Council should meet in autumn 2007 to launch a new intergovernmental conference (Cig), using the "pause for reflection" to prepare the Cig itself. While proposing two amendments to the act that has been submitted to the Assembly these days, Duff asks the Council to admit that the 2004 Act "cannot be enforced unless amended" and that, considering the disagreement expressed by the French and Dutch citizens, it should be substantially improved. ” “
