A European Constitution?

BOTW also notes an article on EUObserver.com that suggests ex-French President Valery Giscard d’Estaing is reading up on the making of the US Constitution.
Since Giscard is the President of the Convention on EU Future, this may be interesting to watch; that would make him kind of like the George Washington of our Constitutional Convention.
Tellingly, the article is entitled “Giscard Suspected of Taking Interest in USA System” and includes the line “Members of the European Parliament suspect Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, president of the Convention on EU future, of taking too much interest in the American institutional system, with a view to introducing it in the European Union.” Nah, this will be fun to watch; our own Constitutional Convention had no authority to write a Constitution at all, but was convened to repair the Articles of Confederation. And my goodness, did the fur fly over that…there were threats to secede all over the place, primarily from New England…
I wonder if M. Giscard was reading “Miracle at Philadelphia” by Catherine Drinker Bowen, which is quite possibly the best — or at the very least, most accessible — single-volume account of the Convention ever written…
You could look it up.