It's like the Treaty of Nice.
You people in Ireland don't like it?
Well, let's just have another vote and see if we get different results.
In this case, I suppose they can punt it over to the French parliament, which is another potential avenue for approval.
In fact, if you compare the number of countries in the EU who approved this new Constitution by democratic plebiscite with those that did so by parliamentary procedure, you'd quickly realize that the actual people living in continental Europe aren't quite so keen on the foundational structure underpinning this pan-continental political scheme-which was set forth at Maastricht at the beginning of the 1990s-as their feckless, corrupt leaders seem to be.
-good times, G.J.P. (Jr.)
Well said.
The French rejected the EU Constitution. Citizens of the Netherlands are expected to follow. Italy is likely to be next. The vote in the UK -- never the strongest EU supporter in Europe -- isn't likely to go well for constitution supporters.
Since this is happening in Europe, I'd expect the next move will be to dump the entire draft, and try to get the whole thing passed piece by piece, via treaties -- with changes of course.