German Chancellor Angela Merkel has pledged to revive the EU constitution, saying Europe needs to reduce bureaucracy and be "capable of action".
"We absolutely need the constitution to ensure the European Union is effective," she told German MPs.
Germany takes over the EU presidency from Finland on 1 January 2007.
Ms Merkel said a quarter of the EU's rules and regulations should be scrapped. "We must put the citizens first," she told Germany's lower house.
She said political leaders needed to convince a sceptical public that the EU was a bonus in areas such as jobs, housing and other issues of real concern.
The European Commission has suggested EU member states should sign a broad political declaration on values and ambitions next year.
It says this could serve as the basis for a future shake-up of EU institutions, of the kind proposed in the ill-fated European constitution.
The EU has struggled to chart a way forward since the French and Dutch rejected the constitution in referendums last year.
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