Dehousse (PSE). – (FR) Mr President, the way the voting went this morning reinforced our bitter feeling that the draft European Constitution flouts fundamental social desires and mounts a serious challenge to the European social model.

In particular, the precise, profound and dangerous threat hanging over public services was, I am sorry to say, confirmed by this House. It was from then on impossible – not to mention other reasons such as the stubborn refusal to consider constitutional or legislative regions – to want, as the majority do, the Intergovernmental Conference not to modify the grave imbalance created in this way between the powerful and the weak. This is why we voted against this report.