The European constitution and peace: taking the heat out of politics / Geoffrey Brennan and Alan Hamlin -- Competitive federalism by default / James M. Buchanan -- The assignment of powers in an open-ended European Union / Pierre Salmon -- Rights and citizenship in the European union / Dennis C. Mueller -- Enlargements and the principles of designing EU decision-making procedures / Mika Widgrén -- The deadlock of the EU budget: an economic analysis of ways in and ways out / Charles B. Blankart and Christian Kirchner -- Coordinating sectoral policy-making: searching for countervailing mechanisms in the EU legislative process / Bernard Steunenberg -- How to choose the European executive: a counterfactual analysis, 1979-1999 / Simon Hix, Abdul Noury, and Gérard Roland -- The role of direct democracy in the European Union / Lars P. Feld and Gebhard Kirchgässner -- Bringing the European Union closer to its citizens: conclusions from the conference / Charles B. Blankart and Dennis C. Mueller.
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The leaders of the European Union member states have declared that a European constitution should have the aim of bringing institutions closer to the citizens. This text looks at how a common policy could be agreed, as well as discussing what powers it might have.
European Union.
European Union.
Union européenne.
European Union.
Constitutional law-- European Union countries.
Droit constitutionnel-- Pays de l'Union européenne.