Interesting report in the Sunday Times: France's no campaign thinks that Britain gains too much influence in the new constitution!

"As debate intensified in France's referendum campaign on the European Union constitution last week, the voters were invited to consider an unusual question: should they try to be more like the British?

"Strange as it may seem, the complex exercise of trying to imagine Europe's future has led to Britain becoming the focus of the May 29 referendum....

"The change is rooted in French perceptions that they have lost influence to the British in an enlarged EU, and the belief, encouraged by the French left, that the proposed EU constitution will result in France being swamped by what one commentator described as the 'free-market mania of the Anglo-Saxon world'."