One fundamental difference between France and Britain is that most of the mainstream political elite in France has long been broadly pro-European. If the French electorate votes “No,” it will be much less a vote against the Constitution than a protest vote against President Jacques Chirac, or an expression of anxiety about the implications of the EU’s enlargement to Central Europe.
法国与英国最本质的差异之一就是大部分的法国主流政治精英长期以来都是明确亲欧的。如果法国选民投了否定票，那与其说是反对宪法，还不如说是反对法国总统希拉克的投票，或者是他们对欧盟扩大至中欧的信号表示出的焦虑。