E.U. UPDATE: A Fistful of Euros reports that Latvia has approved the E.U. Constitution — by parliamentary vote, not referendum — and observes:

Meanwhile French media are announcing that there is a plan B, it’s called Blair. Tony Blair, they are suggesting, will seize the opportunity presented by disarray in the federal Europe camp to push ahead with ’liberal’ economic reforms, leaving the institutional infrastructure to languish. Possibly the outcome the French fear most.

Heh. Meanwhile, Austin Bay’s latest column looks at the EU-vote aftermath, and what it means.