The French and Dutch publics have resoundingly rejected a constitutional treaty of which too little was explained, too late and too poorly. To be sure, the death of the treaty, for that is what it is, does not translate into a death of the European Union. Admittedly, too, a French oui would not have ended this “constitutional” debate. Instead, the focus today would be on the consequences of Britain’s likely rejection of the treaty early next spring….more
