This volume examines the making of the Constitutional Treaty of the European Union. It does so by paying attention to the way in which the political actors operated within the Convention, by analysing civil society's input, and by tracking the development of the constitutional text beyond the Convention itself, through the IGC process and within the EU legal system. In discussing the European experience, the authors also address the question of whether its transnational character represents a new development for the theory of constitution making.
Author(s): Justus Schonlau, Emanuela Lombardo, Miriam Aziz, Dario Castiglione, Chris Longman, Nieves Perez-Solo
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 256
Cover......Page 2
Contents......Page 7
Preface and Acknowledgements......Page 9
Introduction: a Convention Without a Constitution?......Page 15
Part I: The Convention as a Moment of EU Constitutional Politics......Page 21
Introduction to Part I......Page 23
1 Constitutional Politics in the European Union......Page 25
2 Constitutional Moment or Constitutional Process?......Page 40
Part II: The Convention Experiment......Page 61
Introduction to Part II......Page 63
3 The Convention on the Future of Europe and its Antecedents......Page 65
4 Membership, Representation and Accountability......Page 88
5 The 'Convention Method'......Page 104
Part III: The Convention as a Mirror of European Society......Page 127
Introduction to Part III......Page 129
6 The Language Regime of the Convention......Page 132
7 Gender Equality in the Constitution-Making Process......Page 151
8 The Participation of Civil Society......Page 167
9 The Contribution of Business Interests......Page 184
10 The Debate on European Values......Page 200
Part IV: The Convention and its Aftermath......Page 219
Introduction to Part IV......Page 221
11 The Convention and the 'Living Law' of the European Union......Page 223
12 Conclusion: From the Convention to the Referendums and Beyond......Page 243
Appendices......Page 269
Table A1: The development of the Preamble......Page 271
Table A2: Articles I-1 to I-3 – DCT and TCE compared......Page 275
References......Page 278
Bibliography......Page 282
Index of Names......Page 298
C......Page 299
E......Page 301
G......Page 302
L......Page 303
P......Page 304
S......Page 305
W......Page 306
