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Europe
Luxembourg Leader Hopes EU Charter Revived
2005-07-11
Luxembourg approved the European Union's proposed constitution Sunday despite uncertainty over its future, prompting the nation's premier to say it had put the charter "back on the European agenda" after recent rejections. Luxembourg's vote means a majority of the union's nations — 13 out of 25 — have approved the constitution. However, the bloc's leaders have frozen the ratification process after the charter was rejected in French and Dutch voters in late spring. The constitution needs unanimous approval to take effect, and leaders in France and The Netherlands have said they will not hold a second vote.

But Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker insisted the constitution was not dead after 56.52 percent of voters in Luxembourg approved it. Officials said 43.48 percent voted against it. "If Luxembourg had voted 'no' today, that would have been the final shot in the head for the constitution," Juncker said. "As Luxembourg has said 'yes' the process can go ahead. There is a way for the European constitution to be adopted."
Posted by:Fred

#8  reminds me of the scene in The Last Emperor where Pu Yi hears from one of his Japanese handlers that Manchuko has been recognized by El Salvador, and it's just a matter of time before the rest of the world follows suit.
Posted by: Mike   2005-07-11 16:44  

#7  Hope away, dorkface.

It's dead - unless the EUrocrats pull some illegal shenanigans.

Which they will certainly try.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2005-07-11 14:08  

#6  OK. I just looked at the (rabidly pro-European) French MSM.
Posted by: JFM   2005-07-11 12:18  

#5  Mighty Luxembourg has spoken! And who shall dare gainsay her?
Posted by: docob   2005-07-11 11:37  

#4   Luxembourg's vote means a majority of the union's nations — 13 out of 25 — have approved the constitution.

IIRC only three of these country's citizens actually voted for it; the other 10 were approved by their legislatures. I'm sure it was just an oversight by the reporter...
Posted by: Raj   2005-07-11 11:06  

#3  And we also notice that the press seems to be very discrete about how many people went to vote.

You could have found the turnout if you wanted to, JFM -- it was 87.7% in Luxembourg.

http://www.verfassung-fir-europa.lu/fr/referendum/resultat/unique.html
Posted by: Ebbase Slirt3346   2005-07-11 10:54  

#2  Excellent points, as always, JFM. Juncker is distraught and worried: not only will he and his ilk will lose the loot they planned on skimming, but imagine the unemployment! Lol!
Posted by: .com   2005-07-11 09:24  

#1  If Luxembourg had voted "NO" it would have been the final shot in the head.

While the YES was simply a shot in the a... so we can prolong its sufferings. It takes a moron like Juncker to think that the vote of half a dozen people (225,000 registered voters) in a country who lives from money laundering and... from having euro-institutions on its soil (ie its vote is bought and paid for) can undo the negative votes of France and Netherlands. And we also notice that the press seems to be very discrete about how many people went to vote. Here oin France it was 70% and still higher in the Netherlnds.
Posted by: JFM   2005-07-11 08:59  

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