Brussels, 20/05/2005 (Agence Europe) - In an interview with La Libération of 20 May, the president of the European Council, Jean-Claude Juncker, says that, if France were to say no to the European Constitution, there would be great general disappointment that France, a founding country, should vote no to the natural evolution of the European Union toward an irreversible structure of solidarity. He said that he was a friend of France but would feel it had weakened if it were no longer the guide that it used to be. A no-vote would cause a crisis, but it is wrong to believe that it would be a “salutary” crisis, the Luxembourg prime minister said, adding: “There will no doubt be further negotiations in the distant future but they will no longer have the same density as the ambitions of the constitutional treaty”. Mr Juncker said that, if anyone were to have a “plan B” in the event of a no-vote to the Constitution, then he would be that person but “I do not have a plan B, either in the short or the long term - and no-one has asked me to think about it, something that I would be unable to do (…) Europe's ambition cannot be set out in plan A, B or C …”. Furthermore, Mr Juncker said it would be perfectly possible to imagine that those who ratify the treaty put it into effect among themselves, although he dismisses this hypothesis as “Luxembourg would not like to embark upon a boat on which there were no French. I would not feel at ease on such a galley”.