Brussels, 05/11/2003 (Agence Europe) - "The European Constitution: let's continue with it!", say twelve left-wingers of seven EU Member States and Turkey in the pages of Le Monde on Thursday. If the IGC makes the process begun by the Convention fail, Europe will have perhaps missed its last chance for reform and renewal. Enlargement would not be a success, the resulting status quo would be a triumph for all those who refuse a power Europe and who wish to weaken the social progress allowed by the original model of European construction, say the signatory parties. They recall that, in 1875, "the Republic was established in France by just one majority vote". Of course, "one could dream of a more ambitious, clearer constitutional compromise, which marks the federal essence of the united Europe more clearly", they say. But they also stress the move forward by the text of the Convention, which calls for us to remain "mobilised, vigilant and demanding so that the IGC does not slide back". In particular, it authorises "further progress in economic and social governance". The appeal is signed by the former French Ministers Martine Aubry and Dominique Strauss-Kahn; the Mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë; former Italian Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema, President of Democratici di sinistra; the former Secretary General of Democratici di sinistra, Piero Fassino; the former Danish Prime Minister, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen; the former Dutch Foreign Minister, Dick Benschop; the former Greek Minister of the Economy, Roumeliotis Panagiotis and Greek Minster Kemal Dervis; the former Spanish Minister of Labour, Joaquin Almunia, and of Industry and the Environment, Josep Borrel; and Vice-President of the SPD Group at the Bundestag, Angelika Schwall-Düren.