On 16 May 2001, the German daily newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung analyses the proposals on the future of the European Union put forward by Joschka Fischer, German Foreign Minister; Jacques Chirac, President of the French Republic; Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, President of the Italian Republic; Tony Blair, British Prime Minister; Johannes Rau, President of the Federal Republic of Germany; and Gerhard Schröder, German Chancellor.