Governing Europe under a Constitution

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1 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 is? y. * Springer

2 Content Hermann-Josef Blanke / Stelio Mangiameli Preface V Valery Giscard d'estaing Preface / Foreword List of Authors Abbreviations Hermann-Josef Blanke / Stelio Mangiameli Introduction VII XV XIX XXV Basics of the Constitutional law Rudolf Streinz European integration through constitutional law 1 M. Rainer Lepsius The ability of a European Constitution to forge a European identity Giovanni Biaggini "Identity building" by means of a European Constitution? Some reflections from a Swiss point of view 37 Daniel Thiirer Perspectives of the Project for a European Constitution 41 Vincenzo Cerulli Irelli The Issue of the Legal Nature of the Constitutional Treaty and the System of Sources 59 Miguel Angel Garcia Herrera / Gonzalo Maestro Buelga Economic and market direction in the European Constitution 65 Andrew Duff A first evaluation of the European Constitution 95 Peter J. Tettinger Some critical remarks on the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe 107

3 XII Content Eckart Cuntz Expectations of the German foreign policy towards the European Constitutional Treaty 115 Fundamental values and fundamental rights in the European Constitution Federico Sorrentino The purposes of the European Union according to the Constitutional Treaty 123 Cesare Mirabelli The religious element in the Constitution for Europe 133 Antonio Lopez Castillo Citizenship of the Union and Fundamental Rights in the Constitution of theeu 145 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 169 Antonio Cantaro Social rights and European neo-constitutionalism 185 Margot Horspool The Common Law System in a constitutionalised European Union - An analysis in the light of the principle of Equality 233 Rainer Arnold Fundamental Rights in Central and Eastern Europe: A Basic Analysis Herm ann-josefblanke Protection of Fundamental Rights afforded by the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg 265 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 279

4 Content XIII Europe as a federal commonwealth Joachim Wuermeling Draft Constitution of the European Union: the new division of competences 297 Martin Nettesheim The order of competence within the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe 309 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 345 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 361 Enzo Di Sahatore The Supremacy of European law in the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe in the light of Community experience. 375 Bernhard Friedmann European Financial regulation 401 Ulrich Fastenrath The EU as a federal commonwealth 411 Institutions and Procedures Paolo Ridola The parliamentarisation of the institutional structure of the European Union between representative democracy and participatory democracy Juan Fernando Lopez Aguilar The balance of power between the European Council, the Council and the Commission in the draft European Constitution 433 Enrico Borghi The development of the Committee of the Regions 445

5 XIV Content Stelio Mangiameli The Role of Regional and Local Government in European Governance Index 483