> Most EU citizens and governments -- and I think the European Parliament,
> too -- were solidly against the war.
The Parliament's record on this is mixed actually, but under the Constitution the Parliament would make the decision about the deployment of EU troops outside EU borders, the Council of Ministers would.
> How sovereign can any nation be these days, given the complexity of the
> multinational economy?
Travel much? There are still very substantial legal and political differences between different states, even within the EU. Obviously there is a degree of external influence which is unavoidable, but that is not an argument for ceding even more sovereignty. I like living in the state I live in - I don't want to live in a European superstate.
Any Canadians on the list? How would the idea of a federal North America go down in your neck of the woods?
I don't accept your premise that state borders must be abolished in order to create "multinational forms of solidarity" and in any case, we're only talking about the borders of a small corner of the world. The rest of the world is certainly going to keep them for the forseeable future so if we can't figure out how to build solidarity across them we'd better fecking learn. And while the EU has indeed been responsible for improvements in people's lives, we mustn't lose sight of the fact that its original and underlying purpose was to facilitate the free market, and that remains the ideology at its core, as the Constitution demonstrates.