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- Title
LA UNIÓN EUROPEA ENTRE EL CONSTITUCIONALISMO DEMOCRÁTICO Y LA GOBERNANZA.
- Authors
Menéndez, Agustín José
- Abstract
This paper highlights the reasons why the legal consequences as well as the political significance of the Constitutional Treaty and the Treaty of Lisbon will be necessarily different from each other, despite the fact that they are essentially similar documents. In order to explain how this is possible the relation between the drafting process and the constitutional substance of both documents is analysed in some depth. The thesis is that the Laeken process was founded on a synthetic constitutional theory, which explains the European Union's nature as an alternative to the traditional international and constitutional views, whereas the Lisbon process was underpinned by an understanding of the integration process as a way to solve efficiently pragmatic problems resorting to unorthodox tools and devices (governance). The author considers some powerful normative reasons in favour of a constitutional transformation of the Union.
- Subjects
LAEKEN (Belgium); BELGIUM; LISBON (Portugal); PORTUGAL; TREATIES; CONSTITUTIONALISM; EUROPEAN Union; INTERNATIONAL relations; POLITICAL doctrines
- Publication
Revista de Estudios Políticos, 2010, Issue 149, p47
- ISSN
0048-7694
- Publication type
Article