Good editorial piece here on the Irish knocking down the EU's ridiculous, underhanded attempts to force an EU constitution onto Europe. Keep in mind the beaurocrats that run the EU are NOT elected.
Until recently, everyone supported European free trade. But many Europeans don't much like political integration: They want to govern themselves.
And even the Eurocrats running the show admit that Europe's common institutions have a "democratic deficit" (i.e., are undemocratic and run by unelected bureaucrats.)
They also had this "constitution" shot down once before by both France and Netherlands whose laws require referendums on constitutions so they simply stopped calling it a constitution.
They called it a treaty.
The Irish law says that they must vote on treaties too. They didn't want a continental non-elected government running them.
I find the EU's shift into fascism quite worrysome but not really surprising given Europes history and their recently strange Orwellian tactics they've been using to combat free speech, individuality and the freedom of the press.
