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Essay: The Integrative Function of a European Constitution (Discussion of Chr. Dorau: Die Verfassungsfrage der Europäischen Union)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Jo Eric Murkens

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Why did the European Union (EU) leaders at the Laeken summit in December 2001 agree to a constitutional convention headed by the former French President Valéry Giscard D'Estaing to design a constitution for the EU when, according to the European Court of Justice (ECJ), the German Federal Constitutional Court, and many academic commentators, the founding treaties already form a constitution?

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Research Article
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German Law Journal , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , February 2002 , E2
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Copyright © 2002 by German Law Journal GbR 

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