This may provide the blueprint for a European constitution currently being debated at an EU convention in Brussels.
So, continental Europe, with your written constitutional cultures, give a welcome to British proposals for a European constitution but do not forget the very British constitutional culture behind it.
It could result in a European constitution, and an elected EU president - though any changes will have to be agreed by all member states, including those historically cautious about integration.
"From their botched reform of the Lords to their attitude to country sports, from their planned sellout on a European constitution to ditching the 'crown' from the Crown Prosecution Service, Labour have shown how little interest they have in Britain and how much they have in Labour, " said Dr Fox.
It would mean holding a referendum on the European Constitution, and so on.
John Swinney (SNP Leader) asked whether the First Minister would vote 'yes' if there was to be a referendum on the European Constitution as it stands.
The European Union is about to foist a draft constitution on all of its New European members and Great Britain which will virtually ensure that, from now on, the French and Germans will be able, among other things, to enforce a single foreign and defense policy.
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.
After all, even without a constitution, the European Union has been hurting U.S. interests.
Take the European summit last December, when it fell to Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister, to try to wrap up sensitive negotiations over a proposed constitution for the European Union.
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If so, two founding member nations of the European Community would have rejected the constitution as a new political basis to unite the European continent, and it would be seen as a dead letter .
In Brussels a group of 105 European politicians, under the chairmanship of the former French president Giscard d'Estaing, is busily putting the finishing touches on what will effectively be a constitution for the expanded European Union.
The European Union's leaders met at a grandiose ceremony in Rome on Friday to sign the new constitution for the European Union.
Next to all this, Mr Hollande, a Socialist hack who led a fractious party for 11 years and has never had a ministerial job, is a debutant: his biggest crisis was a 2005 party split over the draft European Union constitution.
His failure, as acting EU president, to steer European leaders to a deal on a new constitution has also raised hackles abroad, as has the fraud scandal surrounding Parmalat, an insolvent food and dairy group, which may yet claim political scalps.
On the European constitution, Mr Sarkozy occupies a position somewhere in between the maximalists, such as Germany - who would like the new text to mirror the old one as closely as possible - and the minimalists, such as the UK, who want as few changes as possible to the existing EU treaties.
The Dutch and French votes also reflect a spreading unease that the European ideal is growing increasingly remote to most Europeans, a situation that the proposed constitution was meant to address.
The European Constitution is largely the product of a long-running Franco-German campaign to construct an economic, political and strategic rival to the United States.
EU's leaders agreed to a new treaty in Lisbon to replace the botched European constitution, which was rejected by voters in France and the Netherlands in 2005.
In 2005, Chirac was president when riots engulfed French suburbs and French voters delivered him a humiliating personal defeat by voting no to the European constitution for which he had campaigned.
So it is with extreme reluctance that Charlemagne has concluded that, when it comes to the most divisive issue left in the draft European Union constitution, both sides have a point.
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They face the drastic prospect of having to discard plans set out in the constitution for a new, more formal European layer of government, including an embryonic EU diplomatic service and more EU-level powers over key areas like immigration.
The clarity of a written constitution may give America an advantage over many European countries, where unwritten custom has more sway.
In letters addressed to Mr Obama, Britain's David Cameron and other leaders of the European Union, they have outlined plans for a new constitution to be written while a post-Saleh provisional government runs the country.
The Italian government, as president of the European Union, published its latest draft of a new EU constitution , including a proposal for some majority voting on foreign policy.
It is possible that a serious division over the proposed constitution could end up splitting the European Union.
Negotiations continued ahead of this weekend's European Union summit, which is meant to approve a new EU constitution .
Observers from the African Union (AU) and European Union said the election process - the first under a new constitution - had been credible so far, despite the problems.
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Those French voters that said non to the European constitution do not want to bury the idea of a union based on common values and a certain political consensus, quite the reverse.
U. constitution, European leaders assembled to give the treaty a cosmetic makeover, changed its name and guaranteed that the mistake of putting a matter of this magnitude to a public vote would not be repeated.
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