Germany, France Vow New Push for EU Constitution
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Jacques Chirac pledged Tuesday to spearhead a new effort to rescue the languishing European Union constitution. Merkel told reporters after talks with Chirac in a castle outside Berlin that Germany would make fresh proposals to salvage the troubled treaty after it assumes the 25-nation bloc's presidency in January 2007. "A decision should be reached" on the constitutional pact when France holds the rotating presidency of the bloc in the second half of 2008, Merkel said. "We have agreed that the constitutional treaty will be reviewed during the German presidency, after a period of reflection."
Chirac said that France "trusts the German presidency to steer the ship in the right direction."
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