He won't even commit to giving the British people a say over the EU constitution.
In Turkey, few have forgotten the words of former French president and architect of the EU constitution Valery Giscard d'Estaing.
If Poland holds a referendum on the EU constitution, as Mr Miller has suggested it might, the answer might well be Nie.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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.
I'd wager that very few French voters even read the proposed EU constitution, much less understood its deeper aspects.
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.
But the directive's unpopularity in France was threatening to affect the outcome of its referendum, in May, on the proposed EU constitution.
French and Dutch voters killed the proposed EU constitution in 2005.
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 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.
The decline in support for the European project was displayed in 2005, when French people rejected a proposal to equip the EU with a constitution and give more powers to Brussels, where the union has its headquarters.
So it is not impossible to imagine the idea of an EU constitution quietly slipping off the agenda.
In Britain, Eurosceptics hope to win a vote to leave the EU whereas in Germany the pro-EU elite wants a referendum to change the constitution to give more powers to Brussels.
"The EU congratulates the people of Zimbabwe on a peaceful, successful and credible vote to approve a new constitution, " the EU said in a statement, adding that it "represents a significant step" towards general elections.
However, the draft constitution that EU leaders have been discussing, drawn up by a 105-member European Convention, is a terrible mess.
Britain's Conservative Party, hostile to the EU's draft constitution and membership of the single currency, sits in the European People's Party block, made up mainly of continental Christian Democratic parties that are much more integrationist than the Conservatives.
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).
Did the voters of old Europe turn against the grand political design for the EU, as manifested in the now-rejected constitution, because they recoiled from being governed by a superstate out of Brussels?
Britain's opposition Conservative Party, some parliamentarians from Tony Blair's own Labour Party and much of the press are demanding that Britain hold a referendum on the constitution, as some other EU countries are doing.
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.
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