This article contributes a counter-example to the discussion about the negative effects of regionalism on the multilateral trading order. The article analyses the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) negotiations during the Uruguay Round and shows that France was induced to accept a...

This paper is an examination of the legal basis of Economic and Monetary Union. The law stated therein was up to date on 12 February 1997. Since almost all of the EC Treaty provisions have been left entirely unamended since that date, the paper retains much of its relevance, although readers...

Among the many meanings given to the idea of a European ‘constitution’, perhaps the most widespread relates to the limitation and constraint of power. Missing from this conception, however, is arguably the very essence of genuinely ‘constituted’ authority: the capacity to mobilise fiscal...