Nettsider med emneord «Constitution for Europe»
This paper reflects on the position of the Constitution for Europe in relation to liberal-democratic theory. While clearly not a Constitution in the strict sense of the term, the Treaty nevertheless provides a potential for future democratic consolidation at the EU level. This requires, however, that the scope of the Treaty is not over-constitutionalised.
ARENA Working Paper 08/2005 (pdf)
Agustín José Menéndez
This article aims to understand how the dynamics of the public debate about the European Constitution changed when the baton was passed from the Convention to the Intergovernmental Conference and to the different national arenas that were expected to ratify the Constitution.
ARENA Working Paper 16/2007 (pdf)
Regina Vetters
This paper discusses the usefulness of reflexive reason-giving as an approach to transnational and supranational systems of governance. It is argued that deliberation must be supplemented with law and trust as resources for collective action.
ARENA Working Paper 20/2004 (pdf)
Erik Oddvar Eriksen
Does the process towards an EU constitution amount to Europe's constitutional moment? This paper discusses the Convention and ensuing debates in the light of normative political theory.
ARENA Working Paper 18/2005 (pdf)
John Erik Fossum and Agustín José Menéndez
This paper addresses the longer-term implications of contemporary developments in the EU. The processes of forging a constitution and establishing a closer political unity are put into perspective; it is found that European discourses - the way we talk and conceive of the EU - have taken a qualitative leap towards a more statist conception of the Union.
ARENA Working Paper 21/2005 (pdf)
Thomas Christiansen
In this paper, John Erik Fossum and Agustín José Menéndez put forward the main elements of the theory of constitutional synthesis as a constitutional theory of European integration.
ARENA Working Paper 15/2010 (pdf)
John Erik Fossum and Agustín José Menéndez