No, nee, ne?

Just came back from the eastern Balkans, or to be more concrete, Bulgaria, where people are really worried that the French and Dutch no to the constitutional charter might postpone their entry into the EU.
I don't know how many many times they asked me why the French said no, and how many times I tried to explain that the no does not necessarily mean no to Bulgarian or Romanian EU membership, but rather no to Chirac and no to the government.
And most of all no to the fact that neither Chirac nor his government could explain why Europe needs a constitution that is not a real basic law but a compilation of do's and don'ts.
But there are, of course, people who can explain this much better than I, for instance Juergen Habermas in today's Sueddeutsche Zeitung.