The two reasons. The assertion by Valéry Giscard d'Estaing according to which the absence of a constitution is preferable to a bad constitution merits consideration, all the more so that it is shared by parliamentarians who were former members of the Convention (both national and MEPs), by the Italian Presidency of the IGC and by several governments. However, in the past, even the unquestionable creators of a united Europe accepted the principal of 'small steps' so long as the building...