A 2006/4569

Herm.-Josef Blanke Stelio Mangiameli Editors

Governing Europe under a Constitution The Hard Road from the European Treaties to a European Constitutional Treaty

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Content Hermann-Josef Blanke / Stelio Mangiameli Preface

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Valery Giscard d'Estaing Preface / Foreword

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List of Authors

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Abbreviations

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Hermann-Josef Blanke / Stelio Mangiameli Introduction

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Basics of the Constitutional law Rudolf Streinz European integration through constitutional law M. Rainer Lepsius T h e ability o f a E u r o p e a n Constitution to forge aE u r o p e a n identity . . . .

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Giovanni Biaggini "Identity building" by means of a European Constitution? Some reflections from a Swiss point of view

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Daniel Thiirer Perspectives of the Project for a European Constitution

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Vincenzo Cerulli Irelli The Issue of the Legal Nature of the Constitutional Treaty and the System of Sources

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Miguel Angel Garcia Herrera / Gonzalo Maestro Buelga Economic and market direction in the European Constitution

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Andrew Duff A first evaluation of the European Constitution

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Peter J. Tettinger Some critical remarks on the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe

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Eckart Cuntz Expectations of the German foreign policy towards the European Constitutional Treaty

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Fundamental values and fundamental rights in the European Constitution Federico Sorrentino The purposes of the European Union according to the Constitutional Treaty

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Cesare Mirabelli The religious element in the Constitution for Europe

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Antonio Lopez Castillo Citizenship of the Union and Fundamental Rights in the Constitution of theEU

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Klaus Stern From the European Convention on Human Rights to the European Charter of Fundamental Rights: The prospects for the protection of human rights in Europe

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Antonio Cantaro Social rights and European neo-constitutionalism

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Margot Horspool The Common Law System in a constitutionalised European Union An analysis in the light of the principle of Equality

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Rainer Arnold Fundamental Rights in Central and Eastern Europe: A Basic Analysis

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Herm ann-JosefBlanke Protection of Fundamental Rights afforded by the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg

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Georg Ress The legal relationship between the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the European Communities according to the European Convention on Human Rights

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Europe as a federal commonwealth Joachim Wuermeling Draft Constitution of the European Union: the new division of competences

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Martin Nettesheim The order of competence within the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe

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Luis Jimena Quesada The distribution of competences between the European Union and the Member States in the light of the new Constitutional Treaty: the Spanish experience

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Angelo Rinella Remarks on the system of the sources of law in the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe: complementary issues and framework of reference

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Enzo Di Sahatore The Supremacy of European law in the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe in the light of Community experience .

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Bernhard Friedmann European Financial regulation

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Ulrich Fastenrath The EU as a federal commonwealth

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Institutions and Procedures Paolo Ridola The parliamentarisation of the institutional structure of the European Union between representative democracy and participatory democracy . .

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Juan Fernando Lopez Aguilar The balance of power between the European Council, the Council and the Commission in the draft European Constitution

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Enrico Borghi

The development of the Committee of the Regions

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Stelio Mangiameli The Role of Regional and Local Government in European Governance . .

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Index

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