The Constitution of Europe: "Do the New Clothes Have an Emperor?" and Other Essays on European Integration

Joseph Weiler presents essays written during the 1990s on issues related to European constitutional law. In a series of highly accessible discussions concerning the legal framework of the European Communities and the European Union, Professor Weiler describes the gradual strengthening of transnational European institutions at the expense of national legislators. Although individuals as legal consumers have been empowered by Community law, he writes, this has been at the expense of their rights as citizens. The Constitution of Europe thus provides from a legal perspective a balanced and authoritative critique of the attractions and demerits of the goal of European integration.Preface Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Part I. 'We Will Do …': 1. Introduction: 'We will do, and hearken' 2. The transformation of Europe 3. Fundamental rights and fundamental boundaries: on the conflict of standards and values in the protection of human rights in the European legal space 4. The external legal relations of non-unitary actors: mixity and the federal principle 5. The least-dangerous branch: a retrospective and prospective of the European Court of Justice in the arena of political integration Part II. 'We Will Hearken …': 6. Introduction: the reformation of European constitutionalism 7. Fin-de-siècle Europe: do the new clothes have an emperor? 8. European democracy and its critics: policy and system 9. The autonomy of the Community legal order: through the looking glass 10. To be a European citizen: Eros and civilisation Index