Before jetting off to Washington for a pre-G8 summit spot of arm-twisting last night, Tony Blair hinted to the Financial Times that the cancellation of the UK referendum on the EU constitution may not mean the end of all parts of the treaty.
"It [the constitution] is a perfectly sensible way forward," he explains. "At some point Europe is going to have to adopt rules. You can’t have a six month rotating presidency, it’s impossible to do that."
That, linked with Jack Straw's suggestion yesterday that parts of the treaty, such as the subsidiarity principle, may be salvaged without the need for a new constitution or referendum, points towards a "picking up the pieces" EU summit later this month.
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