The Portuguese prime minister Jose Socrates has said that Portugal will take up the challenge of reviving the EU constitution during its presidency in the second half of 2007, following announcements from Germany that it will do the same during its stint at the EU helm in the first half of that year.
"The project of the constitutional treaty was signed by the 25 member states and it would not be right [to forget it]", said Mr Socrates to his national parliament, according to AFP.
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