Quote Originally Posted by Husar
That´s gotta be the reason they elected it.
They could have elected another government, but they would have hated that too.

Quote Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
Yes, but the EU is not a country. It is a supranational organization. The two cannot be compared.
This EU constitution is not a constitution in the classical sense, but a misnamed treaty on the functioning of an supranational organization of sovereign states.
Maybe true, still the Constitution unfortunately didn't feel like a constitution. That wasn't the main reason for its failure, but it may have contributed.