EU member states should press ahead with efforts to ratify the Constitution even if France says "no" in its 29 May referendum, the European Commission has urged.
Recent speculation by EU leaders that a French no could derail the Constitution project as a whole, sparked the European Commission's statement.
Brussels pointed out that an appendix to the draft treaty already contains a mechanism for dealing with ratification problems.
"The commission, like everybody else, is w...
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