While indicating that the modest attempts to forget the misunderstandings, incomprehension, rancour and bitterness caused by the Nice Summit would be very successful, because three different trends are becoming apparent, in the pro-European circles (we do not even mention the Eurosceptics), with regards to the ratification of the Nice Treaty. These difficulties inevitably keep alive want people want to forget in the events of the Summit. These three trends can be summarised as such:
a) for the ratification of the Treaty (while recognising its failings), in order to relaunch the enlargement negotiations and the launch, under good conditions, the wide ranging debate on the Europe of tomorrow;
b) for the suspending of the ratification until the time when it will be possible to assess what is being prepared for the post-Nice, in order to make decisions in full knowledge of the facts;
c) against the ratification. The head of the queue in this last trend is Jean-Louis Bourlanges, who after having exposed his reasons in a slightly abrupt manner in an interview with "Figaro" (see this section in bulletin of 29/30 January), exposed and reinforced his argumentation in an in-depth article (published in "Politique internationale" N°90). Thus it will be necessary to return to this. (FR)