He won't even commit to giving the British people a say over the EU constitution.
On Friday member states finally agreed an EU constitution that will ease the bureaucratic pressures of enlargement.
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So it is not impossible to imagine the idea of an EU constitution quietly slipping off the agenda.
Negotiations continued ahead of this weekend's European Union summit, which is meant to approve a new EU constitution .
I'd wager that very few French voters even read the proposed EU constitution, much less understood its deeper aspects.
In Turkey, few have forgotten the words of former French president and architect of the EU constitution Valery Giscard d'Estaing.
Lisbon's opponents say the treaty differs little from the defunct EU constitution, rejected by French and Dutch voters in 2005.
Germany wants the forthcoming EU constitution to include a mutual defence clause among member-states, which would duplicate that of Nato.
If Poland holds a referendum on the EU constitution, as Mr Miller has suggested it might, the answer might well be Nie.
But the directive's unpopularity in France was threatening to affect the outcome of its referendum, in May, on the proposed EU constitution.
How, one might ask, could any of this affect the EU constitution?
But the euro fell sharply after voters in France rejected the EU constitution in 2005 and analysts said something similar could happen this time around.
French and Dutch voters killed the proposed EU constitution in 2005.
Brussels has got around such trifles as negative opinion polls and even lost referendums: witness the unwanted EU constitution, now cross-dressed as the somewhat-less-awful Lisbon treaty.
And Barry Legg, of the Conservative eurosceptic Bruges Group said it effectively meant "the end of David Cameron's promise to hold a referendum on the EU Constitution".
Mr Chirac has raised the possibility of France holding a referendum to ratify the EU constitution but is now backing off, realising his compatriots might also say Non.
Furthermore, Sweden's euro rejection comes at a time of heated argument over the proposed EU constitution, a final draft of which is supposed to be ready this year.
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.
The draft EU constitution now has more opponents than supporters in Finland, but then the wind of globalisation has swept over Finland with a harsh hand over the past year.
When the French and Dutch voted against the EU constitution in 2005, Brussels officials muttered that it was nonsense to put the complex legalese of an EU treaty to ordinary people.
Europe's recovery depends not on more laws or a reworked EU Constitution (or taxpayer subsidies of so-called national champions, such as the Airbus consortium EADS), but on attracting, keeping and nourishing entrepreneurs.
Judging by some of Sarkozy's recent statements, including his move to scrap a commitment to "free and undistorted competition" in the EU constitution, she may well be able to count on his support.
So it is with the citizens' initiative, an idea adopted in the final days of a grandiose convention drawing up what was then called an EU constitution (becoming the Lisbon treaty after many misadventures).
Its predecessor, the EU constitution, was designed to be accessible to ordinary readers, and so it roughly was, though being an EU treaty, what it said and what it meant were not always the same thing.
He then found it politically expedient to offer a referendum on a new EU constitution before the 2005 election but the re-elected Labour government then decided the Lisbon treaty wasn't quite a new constitution after all.
The new draft EU constitution does introduce some linkage between the European election and the make-up of the commission, by proposing that the Council of Ministers should "take into account" the election result when nominating a candidate for the commission presidency.
After the popular rejection of the proposed EU constitution in France and the Netherlands, the acrimonious break-up of budget talks in June, and multiple setbacks to economic reform (symbolised by the German election result), most European leaders were anxious for any budget settlement.
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EU. A constitution meant to unite a Union of 25 countries could thus end up dividing it.
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EU's constitution, in letter or spirit, that says its members should exclude from office even extreme nationalists, so long as they are democratic and act within the law.
EU's constitution, for one, has grown higgledy-piggledy, through a series of treaties in which national politicians have ceded sovereignty without ever quite admitting it to themselves, let alone their electorates.
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