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.
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.
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.
Given last May's rejection of the European Union constitution and the autumn's suburban riots, such discontent may be unsurprising.
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.
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.
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.
Poles narrowly approved a new constitution that strengthens the powers of parliament and helps prepare Poland for membership of the European Union, but less than half the electorate turned out.
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.
Whether the European Union will be able to do any of the things a written constitution should have done is a question which remains open.
But at least Jean-Claude Juncker, prime minister of Luxembourg, won his referendum on July 10th to approve the draft European Union constitution, by 57% to 43%.
Negotiations continued ahead of this weekend's European Union summit, which is meant to approve a new EU constitution .
They can see that the future of the European Union is up for grabs: its expansion is coinciding with final negotiations on a new constitution, the appointment of a new commission and the decision on whether to open entry negotiations with Turkey.
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