For many ordinary Europeans, "Brussels," the city that houses the European Union's headquarters, has become a kind of shorthand for the imperious ways of an overweening bureaucracy that seems increasingly unresponsive to their concerns. So when ordinary Europeans in France and the Netherlands got a chance last week to express their feelings on the latest diktat from Brussels - the new "Constitution for Europe," a 200-page, 448-article document of turgid prose and numbing detail - they trashed it. Enthusiastically and emphatically.
