Cette étude, qui comporte quatre sections, donne un aperçu général de l'histoire et des questions juridiques liées à l'instauration d'un financement communautaire des partis politiques européens.

The paper is an analysis of recent academic literature and of EP reports on the White Paper on European Governance, recently published by the Commission.

The study was requested as background information for the Task Force 'Convention' and has two objects: first, to take stock of the current legal status of the Charter and of problems related to the various options envisaged for giving it a more binding legal character. Secondly, the document...