25/04/2005 (Agence Europe) - French foreign affairs minister Michel Barnier repeated to the press on Monday in Luxembourg that implementing the European constitution would request ratification by each of the 25 countries of the Union and that they had to complete the 25 national processes whatever the choices (EUROPE 8933). Barnier reiterated his conviction that if one of the countries did not ratify there would soon be new negotiations. He added that they could not imagine a kind of deal being struck for an individual country. He stated that the constitution was the result of 18 months negotiations. “To imagine a new negotiation because a country asked for it would be absolutely unrealistic”. Barnier stated that any country that rejected the text “would weaken themselves and put themselves on the margins. This would be particularly true for a country like France” as “many French proposals have been taken into account in the draft constitutional text”.