Nicolas Sarkozy, the man whose ambition to become president of France after Jacques Chirac burns more brightly than that of any other French politician, has thrown a small bombshell into the stagnant waters of the European constitutional debate.
For most national politicians in the European Union, it is a subject that is either too difficult to think about, or at least too sensitive to disturb with radically new ideas. They tend to divide into two schools. There are those who simply think that a prolonged pause for reflection will allow good sense to prevail and that the constitutional treaty so dramatically rejected by France and the Netherlands last year will eventually be given a second chance. That is the position of Angela Merkel, the German chancellor.
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