Quotes from European politicians on the European Union constitution.
"The idea of Europe has lived for the politicians, but not the Dutch people. That will have to change." - Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende.
"Europe exists only in the minds of politicians in Brussels. This is the first time in decades we could say something and we said, 'It's gone too far.'" - Gerrie Elfrink, a Socialist Party city council member in the Netherlands.
"France is a founding nation of the Union (and) will continue to fully hold its place." - French President Jacques Chirac.
"The French dealt it a mortal blow Sunday, and yesterday the Dutch signed the death certificate." - Pierre Moscovici, a former French European affairs minister who helped write the EU constitution.
"We must acknowledge that many Europeans doubt that Europe is able to answer the urgent questions of the moment. The crisis surrounding the ratification of the European constitution must not become Europe's general crisis." - German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.
"Without a doubt, the result of these referendums is going to affect the entry of new members into the European Union, especially Turkey and Croatia." - Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos.
"The verdict of these referendums now raises profound questions for all of us about the future direction of Europe." - British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw.
"The constitution is dead. The British government must now give the lead and unpick the mess which Europe has become." - Liam Fox, spokesman on international issues for Britain's opposition Conservative Party.
"I think the voting in the Netherlands and France was not a vote against the Baltics or the Poles, but a vote partly in fear of Turkey." - Janis Lagzdins, chairman of the People's Party's faction in Parliament, after Latvia became the 10th EU member to approve the constitution.
"It is hard to think of any global problem that Europeans could cope with better as 25 separate states than they could by working together in shared sovereignty. That reality will reassert itself with the passage of time." - John Bruton, former Irish prime minister and the EU's ambassador to Washington.
The Irish government "remains firmly of the view that the European constitution is strongly in Ireland's interest and in that of the European Union as a whole." - Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern.
"The only real burial of this betrayal will be when the United Kingdom overwhelmingly hurls this political corpse out of sight and out of mind." - Ian Paisley, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party in Northern Ireland, on his party's opposition to the EU constitution.