David wrote in part:  "...The French & Dutch votes are no big deal. The
European political process always has gone in fits & starts...."

To which I reply,

The fact of the matter is the repudiation of the proposed EU constitution by
France and The Netherlands is huge deal.

The proposed constitution was a monstrosity that evolved in secret over a
period of several years by a team of "pseudo-intellectuals" led by an
ex-president of France, Valery Gizzard Disdain.

One should remember that France was the original prime mover of this whole
concept of a unified EU and the Dutch signed onto the journey very early on.
When the prime mover rejects the constitution written by one of its own
ex-prez, I should think it torpedoes the whole concept.  The results where
not even close and the repudiation was even more pronounced in Holland.

In Germany, the government didn't even trust its own people to vote
"properly" on the constitution so they simply had the legislature ratify it.
That is probably one of the reasons Gerhard's ratings are almost in the
single digits and why the Germans had better start getting used to the idea
of a lady Chancellor.  (Can you say Merkle?)

In fact only a few countries have voted on this issue and about the last one
who voted for it was the same country who voted to surrender to the
Islamo-facist terrorists.

Now Britain is going to scrap its constitution referendum.  I would say that
at this point the whole outlook for the EU is cloudy and the Euro has taken
a hit.

What is even more interesting is why the French and the Dutch rejected the
constitution.  When you understand these reasons, you will realize that
short of a sea change in the people's outlook or a MAJOR revamp of the
constitution, there is little chance it will ever be accepted by France,
Holland, the UK and other countries where people would be allowed to vote on
it.


Denys

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