Luxembourg parliament ratifies EU constitution

Luxembourg's parliament has ratified the EU constitution but the much bigger test will come in just under two weeks when the document gets put to a referendum.

All 55 MPs present voted in favour of the constitution on Tuesday (28 June), with five MPs from the populist ADR party not present for the vote.

Luxembourg daily Tageblatt reports that MPs have said that they will respect the outcome of the planned referendum on 10 July.

This means that only if the EU charter is appro...