Forbes.com: Luxembourg maintains plans for EU constitution vote

Forbes.comLuxembourg maintains plans for EU constitution vote

Luxembourg is going ahead with plans for a referendum on the EU's constitution next month, despite the uncertainty surrounding the near-dead charter, sources said. The Grand Duchy -- the richest EU member state per capita -- owes much of its prosperity to being the seat of several of the bloc's institutions including the European Court of Justice, the EU statistics office and part of the European Parliament staff.
Ten countries representing almost half the EU population have endorsed the treaty -- Lithuania, Hungary, Slovenia, Spain, Italy,Greece, Slovakia,Austria, Germany and Latvia. The German ratification still awaits the president's signature. Only one of them, Spain, approved it by referendum.