The original document can be found here, along with the press release on the subject.

Here's Prodi backing water, trying to explain that the proposal doesn't mean what it says, and it was just for fun anyway.

These documents on the European Union's attempts to create a superstate can be found here.

Check this one out. This is a "Feasibility Study: Contribution to a Preliminary Draft." It runs about 177 pages. Good luck plowing through it.

No one should trust a Constitution more than a few pages long.

The text of the United States Constitution, including all amendments added over the history of the U.S., occupies 21 pages on the Internet. Ideally, it's designed to list those few things that American citizens cannot do, and those few things the U.S. government is allowed to do. Both lists are, and should be, very short. Too bad we don't pay much attention to it any more.

Frankly, if after witnessing the horrors of socialism up close and personal over the past half century, the free nations of Europe still want to go ahead and create a People's Republic of Europe, I don't know what anyone can do about it. There are ways to get the benefits they are looking for without having to micromanage the existence of each European, ways that put individual rights at the top of the list, but then Europeans don't think like that any more. Heck, a lot of Americans don't think that way any more.