[ken5050]

As you appear to have either 1) read the entire document, or 2) have a really good search engine technique, may I impose upon you for another questio re the EU constitution:

Under what, if any, circumstances may a country who has earlier voted to join the EU, leave?. I.e., say, Poland get disgusted in a few years and decide to opt otu? Logic would indicate that one of the newly free, former Sovie republics would find the bureaurocracy of Brussels stifling of all freedoms, and realize they'd made a mistake..

[13foxtrot]

Article 59: Voluntary withdrawal from the Union

1. Any Member State may decide to withdraw from the European Union in accordance with its own constitutional requirements.
2. A Member State which decides to withdraw shall notify the European Council of its intention; the European Council shall examine that notification. In the light of the guidelines provided by the European Council, the Union shall negotiate and conclude an agreement with that State, setting out the arrangements for its withdrawal, taking account of the framework for its future relationship with the Union. That agreement shall be concluded on behalf of the Union by the Council of Ministers, acting by a qualified majority, after obtaining the consent of the European Parliament. The representative of the withdrawing Member State shall not participate in Council of Ministers or European Council discussions or decisions concerning it.
3. The Constitution shall cease to apply to the State in question from the date of entry into force of the withdrawal agreement or, failing that, two years after the notification referred to in paragraph 2, unless the European Council, in agreement with the Member State concerned, decides to extend this period.
4. If a State which has withdrawn from the Union asks to re-join, its request shall be subject to the procedure referred to in Article 57.