Citizens: EU constitution not important
EU citizens do not regard a constitution as something that would be imperative to the future of Europe. A recent poll shows that only 25% of the population view the constitution as important. Belgians top the list (36%) while Estonians and Latvians are at the bottom of the list with 12%. Only 15% of the EU-critical British believe a constitution is helpful to Europe’s future.
In France and the Netherlands, the two countries that rejected the EU constitution last year - prompting the whole new debate about where the bloc should be heading - 29 percent and 32 percent respectively think a common constitution would be helpful.
In the UK, 17 percent sees a constitution as helpful closely followed by Poland (15%) while Germany (32%) and Italy (28%) are more supportive of a common text.
Generally citizens from old member states put the constitution higher on their list of what would be helpful for the future of Europe (27%) than those in the ten new member states (16%).
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Administrator @ May 8, 2006