Evidence is growing that the legacy of the French and Dutch votes will be more enduring than many of our leaders seem to have thought. Now a survey in the Czech Republic finds voters increasingly unwilling to vote the constitution.
The poll showed that 29 percent of Czechs would reject the constitution and 19 percent would [...]

Danish foreign minister Per Stig M?ller seems to be in something of a quandry. He has given up hope that one clear message could be sent on ratification of the constitution when EU leaders meet for a summit later this week. At the same time he doesn’t seem clear what to do about the [...]

EU foreign ministers approved a protocol today adapting a customs union with Turkey to the 10 new member states, including Cyprus, in so doing they brought membership negotiations with Ankara one step closer. This ‘haste’ - cdecent or indecent - is not proving popular with everyone. The EU Observer is reporting that enlargement [...]

Jean Claude Junker is working away trying to get a deal before next weeks summit. Next on the list: Tony Blair:
“Tony Blair, prime minister, is coming under intense pressure to give up part of Britain’s rebate to the EU budget as part of a deal that would see big cuts to European rural subsidies………..Luxembourg, which [...]

the Czech president has become the first prominent EU politician to call for the ratification process to stop after the French vote.
According to the Czech news agency CTK, Vaclav Klaus, a well-known eurosceptic, said that to carry on the ratification process would be useless, although the Czech prime minister has said he is in favour [...]

Wow, I seem to be agreeing with Mandelson. Hardly surprising, apart from all the sleeze rows, I have the feeling he is the most competent politician working out of Brussels:
Striking a different tone from European Commission President Jos? Manuel Barroso, Mandelson appears to be suggesting a ?plan B?.
He argues that should the French ?non? be [...]

For now, at any rate, the Nordic countries are to continue with the ratification process. We will see how this eveolves as the days pass.
We naturally respect the decision of the French people but it is crucial that Danes be allowed make their own decision in the autumn,” Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Denmark’s prime minister said.
There [...]

This piece in the FT seems to suggest that Barroso may in fact be moving away from the ‘bsuiness as usual’ line:
The European Union was on Monday braced for a wave of possible No votes against the EU constitution, after French voters decisively rejected it.Officially EU leaders stuck to the line that all member states [...]

The Economist is more or less positive about the outcome, of course it probably didn’t favour the constitution anyway:
French voters have rejected the proposed European Union constitution by a decisive margin. The flawed constitution is now probably dead, though the EU will get by without it. For President Jacques Chirac, however, it is a crushing [...]

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Jerome a Paris (Daily Kos): France Votes (VII). It’s tomorrow. My bet.
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