The EU’s ‘parliament’ is, fortunately, a body that is as ineffective as it is corrupt, but it’s still depressing to read this:

“EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – MEPs will next week debate a report that is aimed at salvaging the EU constitution, and forming a clear decision byt the end of 2007 on how its core parts should be ratified despite last year’s “no” votes in France and the Netherlands. The two co-rapporteurs of the European Parliament’s constitutional affairs committee, the UK liberal Andrew Duff and the Austrian Green Johannes Voggenhuber, on Friday (13 January) joined the choir of EU leaders expressing their opinion over the fate of the text since the beginning of this year. The MEPs described the interventions so far as “simplistic” and presented instead a report setting out a specific roadmap for the resuscitation of the constitution in a revised form.”

No, non, nee.