Brussels, 23/05/2005 (Agence Europe) - In an 'Open letter to all our European friends who want to vote No', in the referendum on the European Constitution, the governing board of Notre Europe (a chaired by Jacques Delors, other leading members include Pascal Lamy, Francois Lamoureux, Eneko Landaburu, Elisabeth Guigou, Jean Nestor, Jean-Louis Quermonne, Christine Verger, Nicole Gnesotto, Philippe de Schoutheete and Joachim Bitterlich) explain why they are calling for a 'Yes' vote for the Constitution, describing it as probably over-long and occasionally badly written, but providing the resources for 'our common ambitions of giving Europe a genuinely federal vocation. While regretting that no countries had supported erstwhile President Prodi's idea of simplifying the revision procedure of the infamous Third Part on the EU's policies, the signatories note that the Constitution will enable an avant-garde to be formed of countries wanting to create a European army (there's a treaty within the treaty to do this without requiring a unanimous vote of the EU25, without any subordination to NATO and with an automatic assistance clause, they explain); the Charter of Fundamental Rights is the foundation of the social edifice Notre Europe wants to build; following the cobbling together of the Nice Treaty, the extension of qmv means that if the Constitution comes into force, major decisions that are in deadlock today could be adopted ipso facto (like the framework decision on racism and xenophobia); the text provides the EU with two new policies that nobody talks about but which will enable Europe to ensure its future success, namely an integrated energy policy (surely the Constitution would enable us to solve our energy dependence problems the way we did for agriculture, suggest the signatories) and the space policy. Do not heed the 'Plan B' sirens, they stress, warning that a French No vote would sound the death knell for a long time to come to the only plan that justifies our common ardour for more Europe, a plan F as for a 'Federation of Nation States'.