Governing Europe under a Constitution: The Hard Road from the European Treaties to a European Constitutional Treaty

European integration through constitutional law....Pages 1-22
The ability of a European Constitution to forge a European identity....Pages 23-35
“Identity building” by means of a European Constitution? Some reflections from a Swiss point of view....Pages 37-40
Perspectives of the Project for a European Constitution....Pages 41-58
The Issue of the Legal Nature of the Constitutional Treaty and the System of Sources....Pages 59-64
Economic and market direction in the European Constitution....Pages 65-94
A first evaluation of the European Constitution....Pages 95-106
Some critical remarks on the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe....Pages 107-113
Expectations of the German foreign policy towards the European Constitutional Treaty....Pages 115-121
The purposes of the European Union according to the Constitutional Treaty....Pages 123-131
The religious element in the Constitution for Europe....Pages 133-143
Citizenship of the Union and Fundamental Rights in the Constitution of the EU....Pages 145-167
From the European Convention on Human Rights to the European Charter of Fundamental Rights: The prospects for the protection of human rights in Europe....Pages 169-184
Social rights and European neo-constitutionalism....Pages 185-232
The Common Law System in a constitutionalised European Union — An analysis in the light of the principle of Equality....Pages 233-251
Fundamental Rights in Central and Eastern Europe: A Basic Analysis....Pages 253-263
Protection of Fundamental Rights afforded by the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg....Pages 265-277
The legal relationship between the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the European Communities according to the European Convention on Human Rights....Pages 279-296
Draft Constitution of the European Union: the new division of competences....Pages 297-307
The order of competence within the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe....Pages 309-343
The distribution of competences between the European Union and the Member States in the light of the new Constitutional Treaty: the Spanish experience....Pages 345-360
Remarks on the system of the sources of law in the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe: complementary issues and framework of reference....Pages 361-373
The Supremacy of European law in the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe in the light of Community experience....Pages 375-399
European Financial regulation....Pages 401-409
The EU as a federal commonwealth....Pages 411-414
The parliamentarisation of the institutional structure of the European Union between representative democracy and participatory democracy....Pages 415-431
The balance of power between the European Council, the Council and the Commission in the draft European Constitution....Pages 433-444
The development of the Committee of the Regions....Pages 445-455
The Role of Regional and Local Government in European Governance....Pages 457-481