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Draft treaty establishing a constitution for Europe
submitted to the European Council meeting in Thessaloniki, 20 June 2003 European
Convention.
Proposed amendments at http://european-convention.eu.int/amendemTrait.asp?lang=EN
Statewatch
text with comments at http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/may/19conv.htm
Annotated
text by Steve Peers http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/aug/constitution.htm
Statewatch
Observatory on EU constitution http://www.statewatch.org/euconstitution.htm
“Reader-friendly”version
of the text (77 pages) by Jens-Peter Bonde MEP at http://www.euabc.com/upload/pdf/draft/rf_constitution_en.pdf
Europa
has just added a new page on Institutional Affairs to its Activities section. It
links to the most useful official sites on the Commission, Council and
Parliament and also gives extensive information about the new Constitutional
Treaty, including press packs. http://europa.eu.int/pol/inst/index_en.htm
A
Constitution for the Union: opinion of the Commission, pursuant to Article 48 of
the Treaty on European Union, on the Conference of representatives of the Member
States' governments convened to revise the Treaties (COM(2003) 548 http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/com/pdf/2003/com2003_0548en01.pdf
European
Parliament guide to the draft treaty (UK Office) http://www.europarl.org.uk/conventionFOE/FOEmain.htm
European
Parliament Background information (
Summary of the draft Constitution
adopted by the Convention (in TRC) http://www.europarl.eu.int/press/index_publi_en.htm
Draft constitution: citizen’s
guide http://europa.eu.int/futurum/comm/documents/guidecitoyen_en.pdf
An
archive of contributions to the Convention debate from academics, think-tanks
etc. is at http://europa.eu.int/futurum/conothacad_en.htm
"A
Constitutional Treaty for the EU", a White Paper, published on 9 September.
Cm.5934
http://www.fco.gov.uk/Files/kfile/FoE_IGC_Paper_cm5934_sm,0.pdf
House
of Lords: Select Committee on the European Union
http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/ld/ldeucom.htm
35th report The future of
The draft treaty establishing a European constitution:
technical and constitutional issues in Parts I and IV (House of Commons Library
research papers 03/60) (in TRC) http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/rp2003/rp03-060.pdf
Parts
II and III (House of
Commons Library research papers 03/58) http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/rp2003/rp03-058.pdf
The French Senate has published a comprehensive
collection of texts and documents (in French only) together with a detailed
study of the work of the Convention and a 436-page text of the new
Constitutional Treaty with a commentary comparing the text with that of previous
treaties Constitution
européenne - Comparaison avec les traités en vigueur
http://www.senat.fr/europe/cig_2003/index.html
The CER guide to the draft EU constitution (Centre for
European reform) http://www.cer.org.uk/pdf/policybrief_constitution.pdf
The European Union Constitution (CIDEL Project) is a
research bibliography on the history of the constitution and its relationship
with earlier treaties. http://www.unizar.es/euroconstitucion/Home.htm
The Draft Constitutional Treaty: an assessment (European Policy
Centre) http://www.theepc.net/Word/16-A%20constitutional%20treaty.doc
The European Constitution: bringing in the people
(Initiative and Referendum Institute Europe) http://www.iri-europe.org/documents/euro_const.pdf
IGC watch on EUObserver.com http://www.euobserver.com/index.phtml?preview=true&aid=12963&previewKey=a07fa76637
Summary of the draft Constitutional
Treaty for the EU (
Team: the European alliance of EU-critical movements http://www.teameurope.info/
has a number of articles on the constitution, including A critical analysis of
the new EU draft constitution/ by Anthony Coughlan http://www.teameurope.info/wp-analysisconstitution.nr10.pdf
Baldwin,
Richard: Decision-making and the Constitutional Treaty: will the IGC discard
Giscard? http://www.const.sns.se/europa/baldwin.pdf
Church, Clive: Implementing the new Constitutional Treaty: a
provisional introduction http://www.fedtrust.co.uk/uploads/constitution/11_03.pdf
Devuyst, Youri:
EU Decision-making after the Treaty establishing a Constitution for
Duke, Simon: The Convention, the draft
constitution and external relations: Effects and Implications for the EU and its
International Role. EIPA Working Paper 03/W/02. http://aei.pitt.edu/archive/00001621/01/2003w02.pdf
Hofmann,
Herwig C.H: A Critical Analysis of the new Typology of Acts in the Draft Treaty
Establishing a Constitution for
Shaw, Jo: What’s in a Convention? Process
and substance in the project of European constitution-building. IHS Political
Science Series: 2003, No. 89. http://aei.pitt.edu/archive/00000747/01/pw_89.pdf
Patrick
Overy,