And you thought the EU Constitution was dead. From Brussels Journal:
After French and Dutch voters rejected the EU Constitution in 2005, most nation’s expected the majority ‘No’ vote to mark the end of a shared EU constitution. This appears not to be case. A slimmed down version of the treaty is being created by national parliaments across Europe – by old and new members – in a recovery attempt to initiate a brief and condensed version of the rejected constitution. Potential future prime ministers and presidents are so confident of the new repackaged “mini treaty†that they have begun to sell it to electorates, often without any signs of research or prior interest in EU accession or enlargement.Posted by dan at September 19, 2006 7:31 PM