如此一来，即便欧盟少数的成员国政府不能批准该公约，那么它也不会像其前身《宪法公约》在2005年时一样前功尽弃。
That way, if a small minority of EU governments prove unable to ratify the treaty, it would not be torpedoed the way that its predecessor, the Constitutional Treaty, was in 2005.