The next fight takes shape. From the Financial Times:
No campaigners in the Netherlands on Monday urged the Dutch to complete the job the French began on Sunday, and hammer another nail in the coffin of the European Union constitutional treaty in a referendum on Wednesday...
While a No vote from France was bad enough, EU leaders believe a second No from one of the EU's founding members would put the treaty beyond resurrection and plunge the 25-nation bloc into an even deeper crisis of confidence.
Geert Wilders, the right-wing Dutch MP and a leading light of the No campaign, hailed the French vote as "the beginning of the end for the European super-state".
"The treaty is half-buried but Brussels is clever enough to revive it," he said. "Hence the Dutch electorate must overwhelmingly vote No on Wednesday...
Maxime Verhagen, who leads Mr Balkenende's Christian Democrat Alliance, said "every Yes vote counts", while Jozias van Aartsen, parliamentary leader of the liberal VVD party, said: "The game is not yet over. Paris does not write the law for us."
Camiel Eurlings, a Dutch Christian Democrat in the European Parliament, said the sight of French extreme-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen celebrating and hoping for a repeat in the Netherlands, should alone shock the Dutch into voting Yes.
De Telegraaf, the biggest-selling newspaper and a supporter of the treaty, said the French result had left the Dutch in the odd position of voting "about something that no longer exists". But it urged the Dutch to consider "the merits of the treaty and its importance to the Netherlands".
Opinion polls before Sunday showed the Dutch Yes campaign trailing but gaining ground. TNS/NIPO had Yes at 36 per cent, with No on 52 per cent. Interview-NSS said No was down from 63 to 56 per cent, while Yes had moved to 44 per cent.