text: I have particular 'gaul' (sic) with the Star and Globe using the term "reprieve". It smacks of tabloid journalism, and completely misses what has happened, and not just in France. It's happened in the Nederlands, Austria and elsewhere. 
  
  Yes Europeans have very serious issues with Brussels, but those are far better dealt with *inside the EU* than out of it. The marriage is far from over, it's just going through a mid-life examination, and coming out looking solid, for all the yet unresolved issues.
  
  Not unlike Canada or the US, with states and provinces at each other's throats on some issues. And both well over a century and a half old.
  
  "Reprieve": www.dictionary.com/browse/reprieveto give temporary relief to (a person or thing), esp from otherwise irrevocable harm: the government has reprieved the company with a huge loan. noun. 3. a postponement or remission of punishment, esp of a person condemned to death. [...]
  
  Hardly....