"If a plan failed yesterday, add more money, more bureaucrats, do it again, and THEN it will succeed, n'est pas?" What fools the French are, and all of Europe came close to throwing itself down the same rat hole as the French.
By the way, ratification requires 75% of the nations of Europe PLUS 75% of the population. Mathematically, this Constitution is already dead, without the Brits pounding another nail in the coffin.
Congressman Billybob
If the most immediate issue facing Brussels is what to do about the constitution, the most pressing long-run challenge the EU faces is how to reconcile its need to create economic growth and jobs, and the desire of voters, especially in France, Germany and Italy, to preserve their generous, but unsustainable, welfare state. That is the real question Europe's leaders must grapple with, if the continent is to regain confidence in itself.