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In conversations with people from all walks of life - government officials, EU diplomats and judges, business executives, university teachers and students, and ordinary folks - I found widespread agreement on the reasons for rejection, but no answers on the future direction of the EU. Overall, enthusiasm among the EU diplomats and government officials about EU institutions in Brussels and Strasbourg and their cementing European political and economic integration was in marked contrast with apathy, if not outright resentment, among the general public of Brussels' red tape, cumbersome bureaucracy and its intrusive policies undermining national sovereignty.

In response, Margot Wallstrom, European commissioner for communications, has presented a plan to improve the EU's image by taking the EU's message to the people in their home countries and in their own languages.

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