Among the many meanings given to the idea of a European ‘constitution’, perhaps the most widespread relates to the … power the EU obviously lacks on its own. We can call this the ‘metabolic constitution’ of the EU, a term meant to focus our … attention on the capacity of a polity to convert resources into work toward public ends. The EU’s metabolic constitution is …

Jürgen Habermas has recently warned that the sovereign debt crisis in Europe is transforming democratic governments … — the European Union. And, according to Habermas, Europeans seem not to understand their Europe, and instead have used … fiscal integration, Europe-wide banking supervision, and tighter economic policies, but little concern is given to citizen …

project and on the “economic constitution” which the EMU, as accomplished by the Treaty of Maastricht, were expected to … disregards the European order of competences, dis-empowers national institutions, and burdens, in particular, Southern Europe … realistic. The essay pleads for a more modest Europe committing itself to “unity in diversity”, the motto of the ill …