We are firmly committed to the idea that the European Union, too, must do its
homework and set in motion the necessary institutional reforms in order to complete the constitutional process, an
d I can do no other than repeat what Mr Schulz told Chancellor Merkel in his last speech in Brussels, namely that the Council and the Commission must do everything in their power to get this process completed contemporaneously with, and in parallel with, the negotiations with Croatia, so that Croatia will be enabled to become a Member State of
the Europ ...[+++]ean Union rather than finding the door slammed in its face.