– Betrayed...By The French!

French parliament adopts EU reform treaty
Yahoo News

PARIS (AFP) - - The French parliament on Friday approved the European Union's new reform treaty, turning the page on the crisis sparked in 2005 when rebellious French voters shot down the EU's ill-fated constitution.

The upper house Senate voted resoundingly in favour of the new treaty, following its adoption in the lower house National Assembly earlier on Thursday.

It is now to be formally ratified by President Nicolas Sarkozy, who played a leading role in drawing up the text, a tailored-down version of the treaty that was consigned to oblivion in French and Dutch referendums three years ago.