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

Basics of the Constitutional law.- European integration through constitutional law.- The ability of a European Constitution to forge a European identity.- “Identity building” by means of a European Constitution? Some reflections from a Swiss point of view.- Perspectives of the Project for a European Constitution.- The Issue of the Legal Nature of the Constitutional Treaty and the System of Sources.- Economic and market direction in the European Constitution.- A first evaluation of the European Constitution.- Some critical remarks on the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe.- Expectations of the German foreign policy towards the European Constitutional Treaty.- Fundamental values and fundamental rights in the European Constitution.- The purposes of the European Union according to the Constitutional Treaty.- The religious element in the Constitution for Europe.- Citizenship of the Union and Fundamental Rights in the Constitution of the EU.- From the European Convention on Human Rights to the European Charter of Fundamental Rights: The prospects for the protection of human rights in Europe.- Social rights and European neo-constitutionalism.- The Common Law System in a constitutionalised European Union — An analysis in the light of the principle of Equality.- Fundamental Rights in Central and Eastern Europe: A Basic Analysis.- Protection of Fundamental Rights afforded by the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg.- 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.- Europe as a federal commonwealth.- Draft Constitution of the European Union: the new division of competences.- The order of competence within the Treaty establishing aConstitution for Europe.- The distribution of competences between the European Union and the Member States in the light of the new Constitutional Treaty: the Spanish experience.- Remarks on the system of the sources of law in the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe: complementary issues and framework of reference.- The Supremacy of European law in the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe in the light of Community experience.- European Financial regulation.- The EU as a federal commonwealth.- Institutions and Procedures.- The parliamentarisation of the institutional structure of the European Union between representative democracy and participatory democracy.- The balance of power between the European Council, the Council and the Commission in the draft European Constitution.- The development of the Committee of the Regions.- The Role of Regional and Local Government in European Governance.