Current EU Draft Constitution Dead: Netherlands Join France in Rejecting Treaty

The voters of the Netherlands joined with the voters of France and sent the draft EU Constitution straight into the garbage can.

The Dutch voted the treaty down 62% to 38%. That was a worse defeat for the treaty than the French ‘no’ vote of 55% to 45%. It is widely believed that some in the Dutch public were reluctant to vote ‘no’ on the treaty because they didn’t want their country, a founding member of the European Union, to be the first European nation to vote it down.

When the French did the honors and became the first nation to reject it, the pressure was off the Dutch and they voted how they felt.

What happens now?

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