The Sparrow puts the case against the resurrection of the EU constitution. 

European leaders will meet in Madrid this weekend in an effort to save the EU constitution after it's sizable defeats in referendums in both the Netherlands and France.  It's an interesting idea, reviving the constitution, being as the rules of engagement at the start of the whole constitution plan were that it must be okay'd by every member state.  Surely even the blindest, most self absorbed bureaucrats could have seen that at least one country would reject it, although one must assume that were it one of the smaller countries they would have been bullied into saying yes, but no one expected the French to give it the brush off.
 
The problem with the EU constitution is that it's merde, mierte, Scheiße, shit.  It's a stupid idea.  I'm actually in favour of the EU, I think it's far better than the old way of behaving in Europe where we spent most of our time invading each other, it has many trade benefits and synergies.  However, what I am against is becoming a federal system, which the constitution is a big step towards.  The politicians who thought up this scheme can't begin to know how out of touch with what the people want, while people want to be able to travel aroung the continent, they want the benefits to trade and the economy, they don't want to see their sovereignty eroded in a major way.  

When the individual states in America formed a union they had existed for a few decades, the problem facing Europe is that many of the countries involved have over two thousand years of history behind them, in the case of Greece and Italy, even more.  This creates an entirely different climate, and people need to see that the line is being drawn between a union of countries co-operating, and those countries becoming one.  While the constitution does not create a single country, it is a further and crucial step towards that. Without the constitution, it can't happen.
 
The meeting this weekend in Madrid is an insult to democracy, when two nations have formally rejected the constitution to continue pushing it is unfair and pure egotism on behalf of the politicians.  Even Germany, whose Parliament favour the constitution, consider this weekend to be a bad idea and sending a bad message to the electorate in France and the Netherlands.  There is no fair way to resurrect the constitution without sending the message to those who have already voted against it that their opinions do not count.  To return and ask the question again until the people give the "right" answer is precisely the kind of egotistical behaviour that makes people wary of politicians in the first place.

The constitution is dead, it's been declared so by two of Europe's electorates, surely it's time the leaders of our countries stopped wasting money on trying to resurrect it.