23/05/2006 (Agence Europe) - France should give the constitutional project rejected last year by the French “a second chance”, the former Chairman of the European Convention that drafted the text, Valérie Giscard d'Estaing, said in an interview with The Financial Times on 23 May. “It is not France that has said no. It is 55% of the French people - 45 per cent of the French people said yes. I hope we shall have another chance, a second chance, for the constitutional project”, the former French president said, adding that his country should foresee a second referendum after the presidential elections of 2007, amounting to parliamentarian ratification. To date, no-one has been able to provide a better solution than the Constitution for managing an enlarged EU of 25 members or more, he stressed. Mr Giscard d'Estaing said he was very pessimistic about the prospects of seeing the United Kingdom back the European Constitution adding: “The British will not approve the constitutional treaty. We know it. (…) It think that for Great Britain we need to find a special arrangement resembling that which applied to the euro”.