Candidate’s vision could threaten rescue of EU constitution

Salvaging Europe's constitution was always going to be a tough job for Angela Merkel, German chancellor as Germany leads the EU for the first half of 2007. If Ségolène Royal becomes President of France in the summer of 2007 that task will become more daunting as the latter has suggested that, if elected, she would submit any revised constitutional text to a further referendum in France..