Better to save the fatalism until the Dutch had made their voice heard - not that the result is expected to be different. As so often in matters European, however, Britain is the exception. And while the political landscape may have been transformed by the French result, the transformation has been less substantial here - and, to the Government in the short term, more welcome - than across the Channel.Most obviously, France's rejection of the treaty makes redundant the referendum the Prime Minister had been pressured into holding. While neither Jack Straw nor Tony Blair went so far as to confirm that there would now be no referendum, they were conspicuously less certain than they had been before. Not having to hold a referendum simplifies the Government's life no end.Not only is consulting the electorate a risky proposition, the likelihood is that the discussion would turn into an even more ill-tempered and divisive debate than in France. Yesterday's agreement suggests that Russia may at last be learning to live within its post-Soviet borders It is a thoroughly positive development..

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There was despondency among Europhiles across the Continent yesterday, as the implications of the French vote sank in. France's hefty rejection of the European constitutional treaty leaves little prospect that what was intended as a landmark document will, or can, be revived.

Any measures that promote security on Russia's southern border not only reassure Moscow, but help to consolidate stability in the region as a whole. The spread of unrest from Chechnya into neighbouring regions and southern Russia has long been a nightmare for the Kremlin. Their populations will have to settle for autonomy within Georgia's borders or risk a permanent, and probably doomed, state of rebellion. This should greatly assist Mr Saakashvili's efforts to unite his country.Russia's gains are fewer, but not negligible. The return of its troops should be orderly rather than the summary eviction that was threatened The agreement also paves the way for a formal border treaty. She is currently looking for a presenter."Both Elle and Liz are desperate to front the show," I'm told.

By the time I got my appointments, it was eight weeks before my first chemotherapy."She also found her case endorsing recent findings of large inequalities of treatment between North and South and between poor and wealthy areas in the treatment. The closure of Russia's last bases in Georgia will cut these enclaves adrift. These regions - Abkhazia, Adjaria and South Ossetia - were regarded as a Russian fifth column, apt to make trouble for any Georgian leader who tried to extract his country from Moscow's sway. The Russian troops stationed in Georgia were a relic of Soviet times, but they were also a continuing symbol of Russian influence. Their very presence seemed to diminish the independence hard-won by Georgia, not once - with the collapse of Soviet communism in 1991 - but twice, with the "rose" revolution two years ago.