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Author: A.T.J.M Jacobs Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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During 2002-2004 a Constitution for Europe was drawn up by representatives of the 25 European nations. It has been designed to replace the old Treaty of Rome of 1957, establishing the European Economic Community as well as the Treaty of Maastricht, establishing the European Union. On October 29, 2004 in Rome the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe was officially signed by the representatives of the 25 Member States of the European Union. This Constitution was subsequently submitted in each of those 25 nations to ratification by national parliaments and in some cases to a popular vote. It meanwhile already acquired 16 ratifications, but it ran into trouble after a no-vote in referenda, held in France and The Netherlands in 2005. After this setback the EU-leaders decided a reflection-pause, which will last until mid 2007. This book describes how the European Constitution was created and what it would change in the way the European Union is being governed. It discusses whether this was only a tidying-up exercise or whether the new Treaty would bring about important changes in the constitution of Europe. Would this Constitution lead to a European superpower with military muscle? Would it improve the protection of human rights? Would it alter the European social model? Would it recognise the Christian roots of Europe's civilisation? This book provides basic information about the European Constitution to answer these and other questions.
Author: A.T.J.M Jacobs Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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During 2002-2004 a Constitution for Europe was drawn up by representatives of the 25 European nations. It has been designed to replace the old Treaty of Rome of 1957, establishing the European Economic Community as well as the Treaty of Maastricht, establishing the European Union. On October 29, 2004 in Rome the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe was officially signed by the representatives of the 25 Member States of the European Union. This Constitution was subsequently submitted in each of those 25 nations to ratification by national parliaments and in some cases to a popular vote. It meanwhile already acquired 16 ratifications, but it ran into trouble after a no-vote in referenda, held in France and The Netherlands in 2005. After this setback the EU-leaders decided a reflection-pause, which will last until mid 2007. This book describes how the European Constitution was created and what it would change in the way the European Union is being governed. It discusses whether this was only a tidying-up exercise or whether the new Treaty would bring about important changes in the constitution of Europe. Would this Constitution lead to a European superpower with military muscle? Would it improve the protection of human rights? Would it alter the European social model? Would it recognise the Christian roots of Europe's civilisation? This book provides basic information about the European Constitution to answer these and other questions.
Author: Giuliano Amato Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing ISBN: 1847206786 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 329
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'I can enthusiastically recommend and endorse this book. It serves the very important purpose of collecting key documents together in an elegant and accessible text. There currently exists a huge proliferation of material on the EU Constitution this volume makes a very wise selection of this profusion, compiling it into a manageable and informative whole. Nine chapters deal with the most significant matters concerning the Constitution. A short but well written introduction at the start of each chapter precedes following extracts. Part of the value of this book lies in the fact that it includes translations of some important documents which are difficult, or impossible, to access in English for example, recent decisions of national courts concerning the European Arrest Warrant. All in all, this work is a comprehensive, but not overwhelmingly large, collection of materials on the EU Constitution, and it will prove extremely valuable to all those working within this area of law. By presenting the Constitution, the background to the Constitution, and the issues it deals with, in this clear and informative way, it will shed new light upon, and help all of us to form our own judgements on, the EU Constitution, and its importance to our lives.' Sionaidh Douglas-Scott, King's College London, UK 'Whatever the ultimate fate of the EU's Constitutional Treaty, both the events which led to its conclusion and those which occurred afterwards during its ill-fated ratification process have profoundly shaped the future of the European Union as a constitutional project. This collection of materials offers an invaluable set of resources for understanding these events, in their widest legal and political context. The text will be useful to all those who seek to understand both why the EU has reached such a turning point, and where it might go in the future.' Jo Shaw, Edinburgh Law School, UK This book offers a selection of materials that enable a better understanding of some of the most important changes that would be introduced by the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe in the EU legal and political system. It also helps to assess the need for the reforms embedded in the Constitutional Treaty as well as the quality of the formulations agreed upon by the signatory Member States. The book includes excerpts of the European Convention's work, selected statutory and constitutional provisions of the Member States, and also related passages from pertinent court decisions from both European courts as well as Member States' constitutional courts. Institutional and doctrinal analyses and relevant excerpts from the Constitutional Treaty itself are also included. Many of these documents directly relate to the provisions of the Constitutional Treaty, while the others, although not directly related, are nevertheless relevant to the debate surrounding it. The European Constitution, by two of the best experts on the Constitution for Europe, will be of great interest to researchers and teachers in the fields of European Law and European politics, and also to policy makers in European affairs.
Author: Ludger Kühnhardt Publisher: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 678
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The author is presenting a broadly structured study about the first fifty years of European integration, its geopolitical context and academic reflection. His study is based on the two-fold thesis that since a few years, the European Union is going through a process of its Second Founding while simultaneously changing its rationale.
Author: Clive H. Church Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 113422768X Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 215
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The European Union is now entering a crucial phase as the ratification process accelerates and key debates and referenda take place in existing and potentially new member states. The Union’s Constitutional treaty is often cast as either a blueprint for a centralized and protectionist super-state or as the triumph of Anglo-Saxon economics. Yet it has been little read, particularly in the United Kingdom. This book puts this right by publishing the full text of the crucial first part of the document and showing that it does not justify either of the extreme interpretations imposed on it. Written by two experts of the treaties, Understanding the European Constitution sets the Constitutional Treaty in context, examining its main themes and content and considering the implications of any rejection. It does this in uncomplicated language and with the help of explanatory tables and a glossary. Those who wish to make a considered verdict on the basis of the facts will find it invaluable.
Author: Werner Weidenfeld Publisher: Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung ISBN: 3867932441 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 106
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The purpose of the European Constitution is to make the European Union more democratic and more accessible to its citizens, and to enable it to function more effectively. The burgeoning EU is no longer governable through the Treaties as they stand. Yet the document that politicians have hailed as "historic" is needlessly complicated, and virtually incomprehensible to ordinary people. This was one of the main reasons why the citizens of France and the Netherlands rejected the Constitution in their referenda. The European Constitution marks the starting point for a renewed debate about Europe. This book makes it easier to understand both the Constitution and the EU in general. Using accessible language, it guides the reader through the complicated subject matter step by step. Concise tables explain the genesis of the Constitution, its structure, the changes that it will bring about, and how decisions in the EU will be made in the years to come. Those who wish to play a part in shaping the future of Europe need to be familiar with the basic foundations of the European Union, and this demands an understanding of the European Constitution.
Author: Massimo Fichera Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing ISBN: 1789909007 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 181
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This insightful book examines the inherent fragility of modern liberal constitutionalism and shows how it is in the nature of every constitutional community, including the European Union, to try to protract its own duration as much as possible. The book considers the strengths, weaknesses, tensions and contradictions of European constitutionalism using the lens of constitutional time.
Author: Gráinne De Búrca (jurist.) Publisher: ISBN: Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 38
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Based on a lecture presented by the author, this book analyzes how the treaty establishing a constitution for Europe adds to Europe's search for an international identity. De B�°rca submits that the boldest of the novel features of the new constitution, and the weight of significance of the changes which it has introduced, lie in the external domain. She launches the challenging question whether the emphasis on Europe's "global role" and its international identity will be the factor that ultimately will be capable of triggering the public imagination in such a way as to generate sufficient support for the ratification of the constitution and-in the long term-to generate a sense of European solidarity, rather than the internally focussed changes brought about by the constitutional treaty.
Author: Joseph Weiler Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521585675 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 384
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Joseph Weiler presents essays written during the 1990s on issues related to European constitutional law. In a series of highly accessible discussions concerning the legal framework of the European Communities and the European Union, Professor Weiler describes the gradual strengthening of transnational European institutions at the expense of national legislators. Although individuals as legal consumers have been empowered by Community law, he writes, this has been at the expense of their rights as citizens. The Constitution of Europe thus provides from a legal perspective a balanced and authoritative critique of the attractions and demerits of the goal of European integration.
Author: Finn Laursen Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers ISBN: 9004168060 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 581
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This book accounts for the content and negotiation of the EU's Constitutional Treaty of 2004 as well as the failure of ratification of the treaty in France and the Netherlands in 2005. It discusses the implications of the abandonment of the treaty for the process of European integration and our understanding of that process.
Author: A.T.J.M Jacobs
Author: A.T.J.M Jacobs
Author: Giuliano Amato
Author: Ludger Kühnhardt
Author: Clive H. Church
Author: Werner Weidenfeld
Author: Mai'a K. Davis Cross
Author: Massimo Fichera
Author: Gráinne De Búrca (jurist.)
Author: Joseph Weiler
Author: Finn Laursen