France - it could be No

France is facing an alarming split between rulers and ruled. At the core of the EU project from the start, the political class agrees that the EU constitution is a fine thing. The voters though are revolting. The suspicion is that they will vote no at a referendum, more from the BBC..., just as the politicians are telling each other how much better the EU is than the US more from Foreign Policy... It may be that being the world's biggest aid donor and the biggest buyer of agricultural products from the developing world is not a big vote winner in domestic terms.