EU: Ratification should continue despite Dutch 'no'

BRUSSELS - The process of ratifying the EU constitution should be allowed to continue despite the Dutch rejection of it, in the second such blow in three days, the bloc's Luxembourg presidency said Wednesday.
"I remain ... of the view that the ratification process must be able to continue in other states," said Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, after exit polls showed that 63 percent of Dutch voters rejected the charter.
The Dutch referendum came after a ballot in France on Sunday which also rejeected the constitution, designed to prevent decision-making gridlock in the expanding bloc.