Definition: In this task, a passage will be given and the goal is to identify an event from the passage. An event is defined as a single word representing something that happened, is happening, or may happen. An event can be factual or hypothetical, positive or negative, certain or uncertain. While most events are based on verbs, an event can also be based on a noun (ex. storm, snow, rainfall) or a copula verb (is, was, been, etc.). The event must not be a pronoun or an adjective. For noun events with multiple words, use the last word in the phrase as event.
Input: Passage: But that euphoria gave way to despair just over a year later, after voters in France and the Netherlands rejected the Union's painstakingly prepared constitution and plunged it into its deepest political crisis. Part of the reason for the "no" vote, was the perceived threat among the public of foreign workers or immigrants flooding into a Europe ill-prepared to absorb more member states, most of them poor by comparison.

rejected