With a foreword by Atzo Nicolai, Minister for European Affairs of
the Kingdom of the Netherlands On 29 October 2004, the Treaty
Establishing a Constitution for Europe was signed by the leaders of
the 25 Member States of the European Union. This event marked the
end of the discussion rounds to amend the treaties on which the
European Union is founded. Yet, the debate on the Constitution was
far from over when on 29 May and 1 June 2005 the French and the
Dutch voters rejected the Treaty. Politicians and lawyers are now
confronted with the question of how to proceed and how to go
forward. In October 2004, the T.M.C. Asser Institute in The Hague,
The Netherlands, organized the 34th Session of its Asser Institute
Colloquium on European Law, which was entitled 'The EU
Constitution: The best way forward?'. During the Conference some 50
experts from the 25 Member States, from candidate, potential
candidate and neighbouring countries, as well as from the US and
Russia focused on key topics like: the process and impact of EU
constitution-making, the democratic life of the EU, improving the
efficiency and quality of legislation in the EU, the expansion of
executive, judicial and legislative powers, and the access to
justice. In anticipation of the developments after the signing of
the Treaty, three eminent speakers - Prof. Joseph Weiler (New York
University), Professor Bruno de Witte (European Institute in
Florence) and Professor Jo Shaw (University of Manchester),
elaborated on many answers in case of a ratification crisis. This
book contains the proceedings of the three-day Conference and
includes, next to the papers of the speakers and commentators,
reports of the discussions on each topic and the texts of two
keynote speeches. A keyword Index and a List of Articles (of the
Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe, the Treaty on
European Union and the Treaty Establishing the European Community)
greatly enhance the accessibility of the rich materials. The book
will be of great help and interest to political leaders, members of
parliament, international lawyers and European citizens in
formulating answers to the questions that have risen after the
rejection of the Treaty by the French and Dutch voters and give
powerful impulses to the continuing debate and efforts to arrive at
a generally accepted Constitution for Europe. Deirdre Curtin is
Professor of European and International Governance at Utrecht
School of Governance, Utrecht, The Netherlands. Alfred E.
Kellermann is Senior Legal and Policy Advisor and Visiting
Professor in the law of the EU at the T.M.C. Asser Institute and
Steven Blockmans is a Senior Researcher in the law of the EU at the
T.M.C. Asser Institute, The Hague, The Netherlands.
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