Sixteen months of hard toil on a constitutional text with some of Europe's most well-known politicians have not succeeded in raising awareness of the Convention among the majority of Europe's citizens.
A poll conducted on behalf of the European Commission directly after the draft Constitution was ceremoniously handed over to EU leaders at Thessaloniki Summit (20-21 June), found that 55% of the 25,000 surveyed had never heard of the Convention.
The worst informed in the enlarged EU...
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