Constitution plan on pause, but not yet dead

EUROPE’S leaders pressed the pause button on the proposed constitution last night, but insisted that it was not yet dead.

Instead they agreed at yesterday’s summit in Brussels try and to sell it better to EU citizens after the French and Dutch comprehensibly rejected it last month.

They also agreed it would not now be possible for every country to ratify the document by November 2006, the date they agreed just a year ago.