So, that'll change nothing very much then

[andrewducker]

So, the French have rejected the EU constitution.  Which means that most of the pieces will, instead, have to go through as individual treaties, and the big stuff (changing the voting methods) will be held back, making the EU more unwieldy, until such time as people realise that reform is necessary.  Which may well be never, knowing the general public.

The only major thing I can see changing is that the UK surely won't bother with its own referendum now - and that was going to be Tony Blair's swansong - bowing out with either a successful or unsuccessful vote as his parting moment.  I wonder when he'll go now...

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[sbisson.livejournal.com]

My main problem here is that this new managing treaty is not a constitution.

It's a framework that links all the existing treaties into one document. There is no vision, and certainly no statement of rights and principles going forward - just a set of rules.

This isn't a bad thing, and it's something the EU desperately needs, as it's currently possible to use one interpretation of one treaty to negate another interpreatation of another...

But it's still not a constitution.

Let's just call it a treaty and leave it at that...

[andrewducker]

A constitution is nothing more than the rules by which something is governed. You can, should you so wish, attach principles, speeches and other things to it, but you don't have to by any means.