The EU Constitution: A "Non" Starter.

Fire of Liberty

Talking about Europe's future, here's an eye-opening Editorial in The New York Sun and the upcoming EU referendum in France. If you've been paying any attention to the upcoming referendum, you're should be aware that French President Jacques Chirac and his allies (In France & Europe) are in a panicked frenzy on getting a yes vote after polls showing 56% to 59% of the public against the EU Constitution. See here, here and here. While Chirac and his friends fight a public relations campaign to preserve the utopian EU superstate's' constitution, the NY Sun has decided to join the "non" campaign due to the fact that the constitution is harmful to the memberstates' sovereignty as well as ignite and massive gulf between the US & Europe that will make the Iraq squabble look like child's play. Just read what the editorial staff has to say:

We have the sense that, while the proposed European Constitution allows for some independence among nations in foreign affairs, the constitution up for ratification would have made it, were it already in effect, much more difficult for America to have gotten the kind of support in the current war that it has received from, say, Poland or Italy or even pre-3/11 Spain - or, for that matter, Britain. It strikes us as being in America's interest to see the French vote "non" and for America and Britain to focus their energies on building the kind of American-Anglo condominium that was being talked of by Mrs. Thatcher after her famous speech at Bruges.

We say that well aware of the history of barbarism among the Europeans, whose lands are dotted with graveyards to those who died for the monarchies and bigotries that have gone on the march every few decades. We understand that the idea of a European union was animated partly by the hope of, finally, conquering the savage strain among the Europeans from which so many here in America barely escaped. But plowing through the nearly 200 pages of the European Constitution, one can't help but sense that the whole enterprise has become a contraption much like the United Nations, one that is, in the end, going to be a disappointment and a cover for a new round of mischief. If the French vote "non" the bet here is that it won't be only the French people who will sigh with relief.

You know that the prospects of Chirac achieving a victory for the "yes" campaign, especially when Tony Blair backs away from holding a referendum on the EU Constitution in the Fall of 2006. It seems the EU construct is hitting a bad patch of highway and might hit a dead end if France rejects the constitution. Blair's probably scared the British public would put the last stake in the EU's heart. I shouldn't be so happy but I really funny to see that the people of Europe demonstrating their better judgement over the bureaucrats in Brussels. Thank God.

Also check out this commentary on the "non" campaign.