The campaign ahead of the French referendum (May 29) on the proposed ‘constitution’ continues, with Jacques Chirac’s team beginning to look <a href=”

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“>a little frantic as they try to win back the lead for the ‘yes’ camp. The French justice minister has just come out with this:

“At last we have obtained this ‘Europe à la Française’ that we have for so long awaited. This constitutional treaty … is an enlarged France.”

I wonder what Dutch voters, who go to the polls on June 1, will think of that.