Eurokraterne i Kommissionen og Rådet må have udstødt et kolossalt lettelsens suk om aftenen den 22. april. For for dem var fru Royal eller hr. Sarkozy, UMP eller PS, en garanti for, at den europæiske forfatning, som trods alt var blevet forkastet med et overvældende flertal af to befolkninger i 2005, igen ville blive sat på skinner uden hensyn til demokratiet.
on behalf of the ITS Group. - (FR) Mr President, Prime Minister, the Eurocrats of the Commission and of the Council must have breathed a huge sigh of relief on the evening of 22 April: for them, either Royal or Sarkozy, the UMP or the Socialist Party, were a guarantee that the European Constitution, which had been rejected en masse by two countries in 2005, was going to be put back on track, flying in the face of democracy.