EUROPEUS

Six months ago when the Finnish Prime Minister Mr. Matti Vanhanen was talking about the priorities of the Finnish EU presidency, he emphasized many times that one of the main issues was going to be the European Constitution and in a way he did so by making all the member states agree that the Constitution was very important. Vanhanen reminded them that somehow Europe should escape from the deadlock following the negative reaction in France and Holland. Six months later we have a new president of the EU, Germany and the German chancellor in the first speech as president emphasizes that the European Constitution was “key for EU success” - I have very little doubt that we are going to hear the same six months later from Portugal!