That's a rather promising headline in The Sunday Times, but read on a bit, and it says 'In the short term, Brown will press ahead with Britain’s own ratification process.'
Why, exactly?
As ever, It's Vaclav Klaus who gets it spot on '... the Czech president ... declared the entire project “finished”. “Ratification cannot be continued,” he said.'
Classy
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If they can't get through what they want wholesale, they'll do it by inches. They'll just put the constitution into other things, one clause at a time.
What makes me laugh is that the whole issue is unneccessary. One of the problems many have had with the constitution and the Lisbon treaty is that it removes from a number of competencies the veto vote and instead makes it majority voting. Yet the EUs response to the interruptions caused by the French, Dutch and Irish peoples has always been to push ahead or try again anyway because according to them, the majority want it. In other words, there is little respect paid to the national veto at present. If the organisation doesn't respect its own rules, what the hell is the point of a constitution to formalise them?
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