The good thing about not calling it a Constitution is that no one can ask for a referendum on it.
Giuliano AmatoIn Europe one needs to act ‘as if’ – as if what was wanted was little, in order to obtain much, as if States were to remain sovereign to convince them to concede sovereignty … The Commission in Brussels, for example, should act as if it were a technical instrument, in order to be able to be treated as a government. And so on by disguise and subterfuge.
Giuliano Amato