Constitutional Treaty Chaos

Can 27 nations agree an EU Constitution? Even more critically can they then get it ratified? The report from EurActiv appearing a quarter of an hour ago, linked here, on a disagreement between the Czech and Italian PM's highlights the difficulties. Indeed the very idea of agreement on terms, let alone ratification now seems preposterous. So what next? It appears to this observer that the larger member states will present a set of agreed operational procedures at the Berlin meeting which smaller countries will be asked to accept or be left behind. For Britain, who will be represented by Tony Blair scheduled to resign straight after the meeting, the questions this will raise regarding parliamentary perusal and subsequent accountability seem crucial, especially as these events seem set to occur as parliament will be about to rise for its months long summer recess. Will even his successor as PM really know exactly what Blair has agreed for his countrymen? Surely as that successor will almost certainly be well known in advance of the Berlin summit, it should be he who represents the nation at that meeting as only he can answer to Parliament as PM thereafter!