‘Our generation is called upon to think and act no less strategically than theirs, to provide determinded leadership, to earn the consent of our people and to create new harmonies to bring Europe forward together. […] To achieve this goal we need the constitutional treaty. On behalf of the European Parliament, I call today upon European leaders to deliver our new constitutional settlement as quickly as possible and in terms that are both coherent and effective. […] Agreeing the Constitutional Treaty will permit us pass from a decade and more of endless introspection on issues of institutional design and process to real political issues of substance and their delivery by focusing on the essentials. Agreeing the Constitutional Treaty will help tomorrow’s European Union to be more efficient, more transparent and more democratic.’