France should give a second chance to the European constitutional treaty that was rejected a year ago in a tempestuous national referendum, says Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, former president.

"It is not France that has said no. It is 55 per centof the French people - 45per cent of the French people said yes," he said in an interview with the Financial Times. "I wish that we will have a new chance, a second chance, for the constitutional project."