EU leaders should narrow the gap “between promises and delivery,” Jean-Claude Juncker will say at a summit in Rome at the end of March.

The European Commission president’s call for leaders to either promise less or do more will be one of the themes of the Commission’s “White Paper” on the future of the EU, which Juncker has been working on in recent weeks. His message to national leaders is not to overload the EU institutions with work they can’t deliver on.

He also wants to make sure the EU institutions have the power and authority to implement decisions they are responsible for. As an example, give the EU the tools to eliminate youth unemployment or stop promising to wipe it out.

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The White Paper is supposed to reignite debate on the future of Europe at a time of crisis — but so far it’s only ignited the curiosity of commissioners who got their chance to look at a draft on Tuesday, a few hours before a special meeting of the “College of Commissioners” in the late afternoon. The paperwork has been closely guarded by Juncker and his chief of staff Martin Selmayr.

In the White Paper, Juncker will lay out a handful of different paths for the EU to follow and have national leaders pick one before the end of the year. They will range from a fully-fledged federalist EU to a two-speed Europe, with another option being a Europe that acts like a free trade zone only, according to a speech he delivered last week in Louvain la Neuve, Belgium.

POLITICO has been briefed on the content and obtained a draft of the foreword, signed by Juncker and dated March 1, which is when it will be published, according to a Commission spokesperson. Juncker will speak at the European Parliament in Brussels on the afternoon of March 1, which is when he will reveal details of his plans.

“A united Europe at 27 needs to shape its own destiny and carve out a vision for its own future,” Juncker wrote in the foreword.

The White Paper is supposed to inform the debate among EU leaders at a summit on March 25 to commemorate 60 years of the signing of the Treaty of Rome. The meeting “must also be the start of a new chapter,” Juncker wrote, adding that “there are important challenges ahead of us, for our security, for the well-being of our people, for the role that Europe will need to play in an increasingly multipolar world.”

Juncker doesn’t expect his proposals to be approved at the first time of asking. “We want to launch a process in which Europe determines its own path,” he wrote, making clear the process will take some time — until the end of year at least, by which time France and Germany will have gone to the polls.