Brussels, 19/12/2005 (Agence Europe) - German Social Democrat Jo Leinen, Chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Constitutional Affairs, urges in a press release for the EU's constitutional crisis to be resolved, now that the European Council has reached an agreement on the 2007-2013 financial perspectives crisis. Mr Leinen is of the view that 2006 should become the “Year of the Citizens' Dialogue on Europe” and that 2007 should then be the year of decision about the future of the constitutional process. After the elections in France and the Netherlands in spring 2007, the German EU Presidency should give fresh impetus and develop new ideas to overcome the ratification blockade, Mr Leinen says. He believes it would thus become possible to “address the problems and wishes of individual Member States by declarations and protocols added to the Constitution text”. On the other hand, Jo Leinen warned against any attempt to abandon the compromise which had been found and to demand a re-negotiation of the text (an implicit reference to the request by EP co-rapporteurs on the period of reflection, British Liberal Democrat Andrew Duff and Austrian Green member Johannes Voggenhuber, who say that, after the French and Dutch no-votes, it will be impossible to put the same text to citizens again: see EUROPE 9090 on the vote on their report in constitutional committee, which left several options open while refusing to choose partial revision). “Those who wanted to open Pandora's box would get a weaker rather than a better one”, Mr Leinen warns.