Title: We the Citizens? Representation and Participation in EU Constitutional Politics
Abstract: During the past few years, two moments in the ongoing process of European political integration have been considered by many as important steps towards the construction of EU citizenship. In this respect, both the 'Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union' (hereafter, the 'Charter') and the 'Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe' (hereafter, the 'Constitutional Treaty') have raised great expectations. The fact that, at the time of writing, the status of neither document is resolved — the Charter being still nothing more than a general declaration, while the Constitutional Treaty may never be approved — is only of partial relevance to the arguments developed in this chapter. The focus of my discussion is not on the substantive provisions for citizenship offered by the two documents, which are summarised and briefly discussed in the introductory chapter of this volume, but on the way in which the politics of constitution making may, or may not, have contributed to establishing the subjective conditions for EU citizenship.1
Publication Year: 2006
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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