Economist.com
"A constitutional conundrum
Jun 14th 2007
From The Economist print edition
A new European treaty is acceptable only if its contents are kept to a bare minimum
Peter Schrank
OLD treaties never die. That seems a fair conclusion to draw from the efforts being made by European Union leaders meeting at next week's summit to draw up a slimmed-down version of the draft constitution originally signed in October 2004. After all, this constitution was rejected by voters in France and the Netherlands in referendums in mid-2005. Since European treaties have to be ratified unanimously before coming into force, this should have been enough to kill the constitution. Yet it is rising, Lazarus-like, from the dead."
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