January-June 2006
- What they said DURING the "year of reflection":
"The constitutional process has slowed down over the last half year - it is now covered in a blanket of snow waiting for spring. So what we need is climate change. We have had massive blows to the European ego in 2005. I hope that now - having agreed on the [budget] - we will be moving into a more positive climate." Ursula Plassnik, Austrian Foreign Minister in January 2006
“We have promised ourselves that we will restart the negotiations on the Constitution. We will not be able to resolve the matter entirely, that is clear. But we have made it our aim to present a progress report at the summit in June”. Wolfgang Sch
