The accidental constitution
Subtitle: the story of the European Convention
By: Peter Norman.
Publisher: EuroComment
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Brussels
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
Notes: Includes documentary annex and name index.
Table of contents: title: Europe at a crossroads; title: A new way to reform the Union; title: Pressures for change; title: The convention: from conception to skeleton; title: Setting up the convention; title: early days; title: Working groups and constitutions; title: Issues and working groups; title: Broad constitutional questions; title: Who does what and how? Competences and their implementation; title: New or expanding policy areas; title: Managing democracy in the Union; title: The institutions; title: Changing dynamics: from skeleton to early draft articles; title: The member states awake and the Commission confuses; title: Divisions among the member states; title: The Praesidium produces; title: The end game; title: Institutional imbroglio; title: The revised draft constitution; title: Managing the splits; title: Countdown to consensus; title: The convention after Thessaloniki; title: Evaluation and conclusions; title: Documentary annex; title: Giscard's draft institutional proposals of 22 April, 2003; title: Draft constitutional treaty: preamble and part I with comments; title: Draft constitutional treaty: preamble of part II and e=selected articles form parts III and IV with comments.