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Title

The rise and fall of the EU's constitutional treaty / edited by Finn Laursen.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2008.

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Additional Authors

Laursen, Finn

Description

xvii, 560 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

This book analyses the EU's Constitutional Treaty, which emerged in draft form from the European Convention in the summer of 2003 and which was finalised by an Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) in June 2004. It describes the main novelties of the treaty and looks at policies of important actors, Member States and Community actors (the Commission and European Parliament) and the roles played by the Convention and the Italian and Irish Presidencies during the process of deliberation and negotiation that produced the treaty. It further studies the failure of ratification in France and the Netherlands and the implications for the process of European integration of this failure. It finally touches on the question whether a constitutional equilibrium has been reached. Since the new Lisbon Treaty negotiated in 2007 contains much of what was in the Constitutional Treaty the analyses of the book remain pertinent for this latest EU treaty.

Series Statement

Constitutional law library ; 5

Uniform Title

Constitutional law library ; 5.

Subject

• Constitutional history > European Union countries
• European Union > Constitution
• Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe (2004 October 29)
• Verfassung

Genre/Form

Constitution.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction: Overview of the constitutional treaty process and main elements of the treaty / Finn Laursen -- The EU constitutional treaty and international trade / Rafael Leal-Arcas -- The European Economic constitution : an analysis of the constitutional treaty / Ferran Brunet -- The reforms in the Justice and Home Affairs domain : the end of the "third pillar" / Jörg Monar -- Who speaks for Europe while we wait for the EU foreign minister? / Per M. Norheim-Martinsen -- Between cherry-picking and salvaging the Titanic : Spain and the rescuing of the essence of EU constitution / Joaquin Roy -- From idealism to pragmatism : Germany and the constitutional treaty / Almut Möller -- The French rejection of the European constitutional treaty : two-level games revisited / Collette Mazzucelli -- Trimming sails : the Dutch and the EU constitution after the referendum / Steven Wolinetz -- The United Kingdom and the constitutional treaty : leading from within? / Alasdair Blair --^
• Poland and the constitutional treaty : a short story about a "square root"? / Maciej Milga -- Denmark and the constitutional treaty : a difficult two-level game / Finn Laursen -- Italy and the treaty establishing a European constitution : the decline of a middle-size power? / Federiga Bindi -- The Irish presidency : neutrality, skills, and effective mediation / Andreas Dür and Gemma Mateo -- A new pragmatism : the role and impact of the European Parliament in the constitutional treaty negotiation / Derek Beach -- The European Commission as a strategic agenda setter : the case of the Convention on the Future of Europe and the ensuing ratification crisis / Edward Moxon-Browne -- Producing "ever closer union"? The rhetoric of legitimacy and regional participation in the EU constitutional convention / Janet Laible -- The IGC 2003-4 : how constrained by rhetorical action? How intergovernmental? / Finn Laursen --^
• The failed EU constitution referendum : the French case in perspective, 1992 and 2005 / Francesca Vassallo -- Constitution-making and the search for a European public sphere / Chien-Yi Lu -- Everything shall now be popular : explaining elite behaviour in the constitutional treaty referenda / Rasmus Leander Nielsen -- Flexible integration and the constitutional treaty : an instrument with little purpose? / Laura Lund Olsen -- The implications of the "no" vote in France : making the most of a wasted opportunity / Marie-Luce Paris-Dobozy -- From treaty bargains to a constitutional proposal and back / Thomas König -- Concluding remarks: The constitutional treaty is dead, long live European constitutionalism / Finn Laursen.

ISBN

• 9789004168060 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9004168060 (hardback : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008014826

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library