Sarkozy gains Portugese support for mini/max constitution

The IHT report may be read from this link. A quote to make democrats quake is this:

Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates is the latest European leader to come out in favor of the new French leader's plan and said he hoped a scaled-down treaty would be adopted by the end of this year.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair has endorsed Sarkozy's plan while European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende have voiced support for the idea of a trimmed-down treaty.