This year's Eurovision, on Saturday May 24th, demonstrated many of the problems and dangers of European integration, a few days before the launch of a proposed new constitution for the European Union.

ECONOMIST: Discord over Giscard's Euro vision

Like his speech to the party conference in late September lauding traditional Labour values, Mr Brown's lambasting of the draft European Union constitution in the Daily Telegraph, the house journal of the Tory party, was a barely veiled attack on the prime minister.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

On Sunday a former Italian prime minister, who now sits on the body which designed the planned constitution, warned the UK public of being misled over the draft constitution for the European Union.

BBC: Blair relishes 'big battle' over EU