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Governing Europe under a Constitution

The Hard Road from the European Treaties to a European Constitutional Treaty

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Editors:
  1. Herm.-Josef Blanke

    1. Staatswissenschaftliche Fakultät Lehrstuhl für Öffentliches Recht, Völkerrecht und Europäische Integration, Universität Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany

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  2. Stelio Mangiameli

    1. Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche Pubblicistiche, Università Degli Studi Di Teramo, Teramo, Italy

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Table of contents (29 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-LXIV
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  2. Basics of the Constitutional law

    1. European integration through constitutional law

      • Rudolf Streinz
      Pages 1-22

    2. The ability of a European Constitution to forge a European identity

      • M. Rainer Lepsius
      Pages 23-35

    3. “Identity building” by means of a European Constitution? Some reflections from a Swiss point of view

      • Giovanni Biaggini
      Pages 37-40

    4. Perspectives of the Project for a European Constitution

      • Daniel Thürer
      Pages 41-58

    5. The Issue of the Legal Nature of the Constitutional Treaty and the System of Sources

      • Vincenzo Cerulli Irelli
      Pages 59-64

    6. Economic and market direction in the European Constitution

      • Miguel Ángel García Herrera, Gonzalo Maestro Buelga
      Pages 65-94

    7. A first evaluation of the European Constitution

      • Andrew Duff
      Pages 95-106

    8. Some critical remarks on the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe

      • Peter J. Tettinger
      Pages 107-113

    9. Expectations of the German foreign policy towards the European Constitutional Treaty

      • Eckart Cuntz
      Pages 115-121

  3. Fundamental values and fundamental rights in the European Constitution

    1. The purposes of the European Union according to the Constitutional Treaty

      • Federico Sorrentino
      Pages 123-131

    2. The religious element in the Constitution for Europe

      • Cesare Mirabelli
      Pages 133-143

    3. Citizenship of the Union and Fundamental Rights in the Constitution of the EU

      • Antonio López Castillo
      Pages 145-167

    4. From the European Convention on Human Rights to the European Charter of Fundamental Rights: The prospects for the protection of human rights in Europe

      • Klaus Stern
      Pages 169-184

    5. Social rights and European neo-constitutionalism

      • Antonio Cantaro
      Pages 185-232

    6. The Common Law System in a constitutionalised European Union — An analysis in the light of the principle of Equality

      • Margot Horspool
      Pages 233-251

    7. Fundamental Rights in Central and Eastern Europe: A Basic Analysis

      • Rainer Arnold
      Pages 253-263

    8. Protection of Fundamental Rights afforded by the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg

      • Hermann-Josef Blanke
      Pages 265-277

    9. 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

      • Georg Ress
      Pages 279-296

  4. Europe as a federal commonwealth

    1. Draft Constitution of the European Union: the new division of competences

      • Joachim Wuermeling
      Pages 297-307
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About this book

At the summit in Laeken in December 2001 the European Council opened the debate on the reform of the supranational structures through its "Declaration on the Future of the European Union" and proposed a wide-ranging agenda. The European Convention, with the mandate of the European Council, has been forming proposals for a more democratic, transparent and efficient European Union and presented a draft of a Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe on 20th of June 2003. On these fundaments the Intergovernmental Conference finally came to a compromise in summer 2004 after wrestling especially with the problem of qualified majority voting within the Council. On 29th of October 2004 the Heads of State and Governments of the 25 Member States signed the Treaty. After the French and Dutch citizens refused their approval of the Treaty in referendums the future of the draft Constitution remains uncertain. The volume contains articles from high-ranking experts from politics and academia of different Member States about the basic principles of the actual constitutional law of the European Union and its need of reform through a Constitution for Europe. By analysing the rules to govern a Europe of 25 and in time 28 and more Member States the publication intends to make a contribution to the emerging "Ius Publicum Europaeum".

Editors and Affiliations

  • Staatswissenschaftliche Fakultät Lehrstuhl für Öffentliches Recht, Völkerrecht und Europäische Integration, Universität Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany

    Herm.-Josef Blanke

  • Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche Pubblicistiche, Università Degli Studi Di Teramo, Teramo, Italy

    Stelio Mangiameli

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Governing Europe under a Constitution

  • Book Subtitle: The Hard Road from the European Treaties to a European Constitutional Treaty

  • Editors: Herm.-Josef Blanke, Stelio Mangiameli

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-31291-9

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-24042-6Published: 16 December 2005

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-06318-3Published: 12 February 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-31291-8Published: 28 February 2006

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: LXIV, 492

  • Topics: European Law

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