Issues concerning the disposition of power as between the major EU institutions were among the most contentious during the debates in the Convention on the Future of Europe. This paper analyses these issues in political and legal terms. The discussion begins with the process employed in the...

There have been for fifty years two Europes: the Europe of the Council of Europe and the Europe of the European Union. Both organisations have grown, but their membership remains different. Both have developed international instruments for protecting Human Rights: on the one hand, the European...

Joschka Fischer's well-known speech at the Humboldt University on 12 May 2000 marked the start of a wide-ranging and unprecedented debate on the future of Europe. Subsequent developments have led us from the Nice and Laeken declarations to the establishment of a 105 members comprising Convention...

The third part of the Constitution for Europe has been submitted to hard criticism. The content of this part however, is indispensable to a Constitution of the European Union as it is a consolidation of the legal bases and institutional details which are necessary to the functioning of the EU....

The defeat European constitutionalism has experienced in the French and the Dutch referendum has many reasons. The deficiency this contribution addresses is the lack of sensitivity for the historical dimensions of the integration project in general and the darker legacies of law in particular....