Download or read book Understanding the European Constitution written by Clive H. Church and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-11-16 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Union is now entering a crucial phase as the ratification process accelerates and key debates and referenda take place in existing and potentially new member states. The Union’s Constitutional treaty is often cast as either a blueprint for a centralized and protectionist super-state or as the triumph of Anglo-Saxon economics. Yet it has been little read, particularly in the United Kingdom. This book puts this right by publishing the full text of the crucial first part of the document and showing that it does not justify either of the extreme interpretations imposed on it. Written by two experts of the treaties, Understanding the European Constitution sets the Constitutional Treaty in context, examining its main themes and content and considering the implications of any rejection. It does this in uncomplicated language and with the help of explanatory tables and a glossary. Those who wish to make a considered verdict on the basis of the facts will find it invaluable.
Download or read book The European Constitution written by Giuliano Amato and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I can enthusiastically recommend and endorse this book. It serves the very important purpose of collecting key documents together in an elegant and accessible text. There currently exists a huge proliferation of material on the EU Constitution this volume makes a very wise selection of this profusion, compiling it into a manageable and informative whole. Nine chapters deal with the most significant matters concerning the Constitution. A short but well written introduction at the start of each chapter precedes following extracts. Part of the value of this book lies in the fact that it includes translations of some important documents which are difficult, or impossible, to access in English for example, recent decisions of national courts concerning the European Arrest Warrant. All in all, this work is a comprehensive, but not overwhelmingly large, collection of materials on the EU Constitution, and it will prove extremely valuable to all those working within this area of law. By presenting the Constitution, the background to the Constitution, and the issues it deals with, in this clear and informative way, it will shed new light upon, and help all of us to form our own judgements on, the EU Constitution, and its importance to our lives.' Sionaidh Douglas-Scott, King's College London, UK 'Whatever the ultimate fate of the EU's Constitutional Treaty, both the events which led to its conclusion and those which occurred afterwards during its ill-fated ratification process have profoundly shaped the future of the European Union as a constitutional project. This collection of materials offers an invaluable set of resources for understanding these events, in their widest legal and political context. The text will be useful to all those who seek to understand both why the EU has reached such a turning point, and where it might go in the future.' Jo Shaw, Edinburgh Law School, UK This book offers a selection of materials that enable a better understanding of some of the most important changes that would be introduced by the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe in the EU legal and political system. It also helps to assess the need for the reforms embedded in the Constitutional Treaty as well as the quality of the formulations agreed upon by the signatory Member States. The book includes excerpts of the European Convention's work, selected statutory and constitutional provisions of the Member States, and also related passages from pertinent court decisions from both European courts as well as Member States' constitutional courts. Institutional and doctrinal analyses and relevant excerpts from the Constitutional Treaty itself are also included. Many of these documents directly relate to the provisions of the Constitutional Treaty, while the others, although not directly related, are nevertheless relevant to the debate surrounding it. The European Constitution, by two of the best experts on the Constitution for Europe, will be of great interest to researchers and teachers in the fields of European Law and European politics, and also to policy makers in European affairs.
Download or read book The Constitution for Europe written by Marcel Kielhorn and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2005 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Constitution for Europe: Why do we need it? Is it really better than the current treaty-based system? Which difficulties faces the ratification process? This book answers these questions and provides an analysis of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe. It visualizes the huge importance of the document for a working EU, emphasizes the prospects of a really unified continent and shows that Europe as well as the EU stands at the crossroads of its future fate. Hopefully, its politicians and people do not decide to turn into a blind alley.
Download or read book Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe written by Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office and published by Stationery Office Books (TSO). This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The EU Constitutional Treaty was drawn up as a result of the discussions of the Convention on the Future of Europe, established as a forum for consideration of wide-ranging reforms, particularly taking into account the consequences of EU enlargement, and the need to improve the clarity, transparency, accountability and efficiency of its decision-making processes. This Command Paper contains the final text of the EU Constitutional Treaty, as agreed in Rome in October 2004, with a commentary which explains the meaning and effect of each article, sets out how the Treaty relates to previous treaties and analyses where the Treaty introduces changes to the European Union's powers.
Download or read book White Paper on the Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe written by Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2004 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The EUs heads of government reached agreement on the new Treaty at the European Council on 17-18 June. The provisional text was put before the House [as Cm 6289] on 19 July. The final texts in all the EUs 21 official languages are being prepared for the signature of the Treaty in Rome on 29 October. To assist this debate, and wider discussion in the country, I published earlier today a White Paper which sets out the main elements of the new Treaty, and analyses how the Government delivered on the negotiating objectives which we outlined in our White Paper of September last year.
Download or read book The European Constitution in the Making written by Kimmo Kiljunen and published by CEPS. This book was released on 2004 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Treaty Establishing A Constitution for Europe written by The European Union and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-02 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF THE BELGIANS, THE PRESIDENT OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC, HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF DENMARK, THE PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ESTONIA, THE PRESIDENT OF THE HELLENIC REPUBLIC, HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF SPAIN, THE PRESIDENT OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, THE PRESIDENT OF IRELAND, THE PRESIDENT OF THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC, THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS, THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF LATVIA, THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA, HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE GRAND DUKE OF LUXEMBOURG, THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF HUNGARY, THE PRESIDENT OF MALTA, HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF THE NETHERLANDS, THE FEDERAL PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF AUSTRIA, THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND, THE PRESIDENT OF THE PORTUGUESE REPUBLIC, THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA, THE PRESIDENT OF THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC, THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF FINLAND, THE GOVERNMENT OF THE KINGDOM OF SWEDEN, HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND, DRAWING INSPIRATION from the cultural, religious and humanist inheritance of Europe, from which have developed the universal values of the inviolable and inalienable rights of the human person, freedom, democracy, equality and the rule of law, BELIEVING that Europe, reunited after bitter experiences, intends to continue along the path of civilisation, progress and prosperity, for the good of all its inhabitants, including the weakest and most deprived; that it wishes to remain a continent open to culture, learning and social progress; and that it wishes to deepen the democratic and transparent nature of its public life, and to strive for peace, justice and solidarity throughout the world, CONVINCED that, while remaining proud of their own national identities and history, the peoples of Europe are determined to transcend their former divisions and, united ever more closely, to forge a common destiny, CONVINCED that, thus 'United in diversity', Europe offers them the best chance of pursuing, with due regard for the rights of each individual and in awareness of their responsibilities towards future generations and the Earth, the great venture which makes of it a special area of human hope, DETERMINED to continue the work accomplished within the framework of the Treaties establishing the European Communities and the Treaty on European Union, by ensuring the continuity of the Community acquis, GRATEFUL to the members of the European Convention for having prepared the draft of this Constitution on behalf of the citizens and States of Europe,
Download or read book The Constitution for Europe written by Jean-Claude Piris and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-30 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Download or read book Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe written by European Union and published by Luxembourg : Office for Official Publications of the European Communities. This book was released on 2005 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication contains the text of the Treaty, including the protocols and annexes, and final act with declarations, as signed in Rome on 29 October 2004. The Treaty will take effect only on the date of its entry into force (1 November 2006) provided that all the instruments of ratification have been deposited by the contracting parties.
Download or read book The Politics of Crisis in Europe written by Mai'a K. Davis Cross and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the repeated existential crises affecting the resilience of the European Union in the twenty-first century.
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the EU s Constitutional Treaty written by Finn Laursen and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2008-07-31 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book accounts for the content and negotiation of the EU's Constitutional Treaty of 2004 as well as the failure of ratification of the treaty in France and the Netherlands in 2005. It discusses the implications of the abandonment of the treaty for the process of European integration and our understanding of that process.
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the EU s Constitutional Treaty written by Finn Laursen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-07-31 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the EU's Constitutional Treaty, which emerged in draft form from the European Convention in the summer of 2003 and which was finalised by an Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) in June 2004. It describes the main novelties of the treaty and looks at policies of important actors, Member States and Community actors (the Commission and European Parliament) and the roles played by the Convention and the Italian and Irish Presidencies during the process of deliberation and negotiation that produced the treaty. It further studies the failure of ratification in France and the Netherlands and the implications for the process of European integration of this failure. It finally touches on the question whether a constitutional equilibrium has been reached. Since the new Lisbon Treaty negotiated in 2007 contains much of what was in the Constitutional Treaty the analyses of the book remain pertinent for this latest EU treaty.
Download or read book Governing Europe under a Constitution written by Herm.-Josef Blanke and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-02-28 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume contains articles from high-ranking experts from politics and academia of different Member States about the basic principles of the actual constitutional law of the European Union and its need of reform through a Constitution for Europe. By analysing the rules to govern a Europe of 25 and in time 28 and more Member States the publication intends to make a contribution to the emerging "Ius Publicum Europaeum".
Download or read book The EU Constitution written by Gráinne De Búrca (jurist.) and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a lecture presented by the author, this book analyzes how the treaty establishing a constitution for Europe adds to Europe's search for an international identity. De BÃ?°rca submits that the boldest of the novel features of the new constitution, and the weight of significance of the changes which it has introduced, lie in the external domain. She launches the challenging question whether the emphasis on Europe's "global role" and its international identity will be the factor that ultimately will be capable of triggering the public imagination in such a way as to generate sufficient support for the ratification of the constitution and-in the long term-to generate a sense of European solidarity, rather than the internally focussed changes brought about by the constitutional treaty.
Download or read book The European Parliament s Opinion on the European Constitution on the Basis of the Report Presented by the Committee on Constitutional Affairs on the Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe written by Richard Corbett and published by Luxembourg? : Office for Official Publications of the European Communities. This book was released on 2005 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Parliament adopted the report by Richard Corbett and Iñigo Méndez de Vigo on 12 January 2005 by 500 votes to 137, with 40 abstentions: it has approved the treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe and "wholeheartedly supports its ratification".
Download or read book The Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Library and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Constitution for Europe and an Enlarging Union written by Kirstyn Inglis and published by Europa Law Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recoge: 1. Formalising European Constitutionalism; Potencial added value or "Death by Constitution" - 2. Towards a more democratic union? Comments on the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe - 3. Institutional reform in the European Union - 4. The National Parliaments in an enlarged Europe and the Constitutional Treatry - 5. The "principle" of differentiation in an enlarged European Union; unity in diversity? - 6. Impact of European Union enlargement on EMU; monetary split-up into "ins" and "outs" as a temporary or permanent phenomenon? - 7. Differentiation in European Union citizenship law; the Cyprus problem - 8. The impact of the agriculture on the success of enlargement - 9. European counter-terrorism in the context of enlargement: challenges ahead - 10. EU enlargement-membership conditions applied to future and potential member states - 11. Minority protection in the EU-Challenges ahead - 12. Turkey's democratisation in light of its EU candidate status; EU enlargement at a crossroads.