Reviving the European project

Jacques Julliard, the weekly's deputy editor, explains in an interview with François Sionneau that he does not see how the constitution could return to the agenda. "Projecting five to 10 years into the future - the most that is possible - I am frankly not that optimistic about Europe's political hopes. We have fallen too far behind. We must also remember that an enormous gap exists between the motivations that pushed people to vote 'no' - reasons having to do with domestic politics which may be legitimate - and the consequences of this 'no', which transcend domestic politics and are not remediable in the short term. The world's major dates with destiny will proceed without Europe. Large European countries will participate, but not as a Union."   

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