France to reject their own Constitution?!?!

Two polls suggest that France may reject the E.U. Constitution that they wrote. Tragicomedy.

Written by former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, the Constitution promotes "ever closer union" and was designed to create a common front for the promotion of a unified European international facade for all matters from trade to defense.

Considered by many (especially the British) as too integrationist, a French okay was taken for granted if for no other reason than that the Brits were hesitant. A no from the French doesn't doom the project, as they could run another referendum down the road once the French see what they've done, but it would be incredibly embarrasing.

French Racism Rears its Frequently Seen Head

French interior minister, Dominique De Villepin, said that a No vote would result in globalisation "without any constraints," he said, and Europe would then become "the big market that the Anglo-Saxons dream about, a Europe under US influence, a Europe under Chinese influence".

Meanwhile, the two main reasons that the No campaign is doing so well is distaste for the Chirac government, and the French fear of Turkish entry into the E.U.

So, essentially, Villepin is attempting to counter French racism with French racism and Anglophobia. Fight fire with fire I suppose.