Given last May's rejection of the European Union constitution and the autumn's suburban riots, such discontent may be unsurprising.
On one side, social unrest still lingers after voters decisively said no to the European Union constitution on May 29th.
Certainly the new draft European Union constitution, voted down twice in three days in France and the Netherlands, is a lost cause.
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%.
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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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.
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.
But the proximate cause of the euro's unpopularity is those other referendums political not financial, in France and in the Netherlands on the European Union's constitution.
The European Union's leaders met at a grandiose ceremony in Rome on Friday to sign the new constitution for the European Union.
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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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.
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 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.
It is possible that a serious division over the proposed constitution could end up splitting the European Union.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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