Re: Hang on
"If all EEC/EU-related votes had required even a 2/3 majority of those who voted (never mind 2/3 of the electorate) Europe would look very different today."
I'm with you on that. But having known that they were going to have to sell their product to a 2/3 majority those negotiating the Maastricht treaty would have had to come up with a different product. It's by no means certain that there wouldn't have been an approved treaty.