Strasbourg, 14/09/2004 (Agence Europe) - In his press conference on Tuesday in Strasbourg, the co-president of the Greens/EFA Group, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, made a scathing attack against Laurent Fabius for his hostile position to the European Constitution. "A politician with the calibre of a European has just dropped Europe through cowardliness, lowness and a little political calculation" because he wants to be the Socialist candidate at presidential elections, the German Green member said. He let fly: "He weakens the left, Europe and himself and makes himself even more ugly". He went on: "This is the beginning of a great lie. Let us imagine that he is elected president (anything can happen so why not that!), he would then do the opposite to what he says". Also, the calculation of the French Socialist is "completely idiotic" because, if he got to the second round of presidential elections to confront Nicolas Sarkozy, he would only have a chance of winning if he mobilised part of the centre and "in France, the centre is pro-European".
What is the reaction of your group to the positions taken by Laurent Fabius on the European Constitution? it was asked. "Irresponsible, quite irresponsible. From someone who has his experience, it is incredible": that is how the president of the ALDE Group, Graham Watson, answered the press on Tuesday.