BBC NEWS: Dancing at Versailles to the EU Treaty - by Mark Mardell

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Dancing at Versailles to the EU Treaty

The French politicians from both houses were meeting to change the constitution so they could go ahead with the adoption of the Treaty of Lisbon. By the weekend, the Senate, the National Assembly and the President himself will all have wielded the rubber stamp. Indeed, at Versailles they bring in a real, live, giant stamp to endorse the document. No plan B - President Sarkozy had made no bones about it, and repeatedly made it clear in his election campaign that if he was president there would be no second referendum. Few politicians are open enough to say “we just can’t take the risk”, but French Prime Minister Francois Fillion was pretty direct.