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* What happens if Britain votes no? Ten ways out of a European constitutional crisis. Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform, examines what happens if the rest of the EU adopts the constitutional treaty but the British vote against it. This, he says, will create crisis and instability. Grant, author of the acclaimed biography of Jacques Delors Delors: Inside the House that Jacques Built, argues that several scenarios are unlikely: the rest of the EU agreeing to live with the existing treaties, an attempt to renegotiate the constitutional treaty, a second British referendum or plans for a union between France and Germany. Grant says the legal and political obstacles would probably prevent the countries that ratify the treaty from pressing ahead with it, while pushing Britain out of the EU. Similarly, if France and Germany tried to build a hard...