Die erweiterte EU und ihre unsichere Verfassung
Sebastian Kurpas und Justus Schönlau vom Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) untersuchen in diesem Policy Brief, ob die EU-Verfassung nennenswerte Veränderungen mit sich geführt hätte, wäre sie angenommen worden.
Sebastian Kurpas und Justus Schönlau vom Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) untersuchen in diesem Policy Brief, ob die EU-Verfassung nennenswerte Veränderungen mit sich geführt hätte, wäre sie angenommen worden.
In the CEPS policy brief „Deadlock avoided, but sense of mission lost? The Enlarged EU and its Uncertain Constitution“, the authors focus on the current EU institutional performance and discuss whether the EU Constitution would have positively affected the efficiency of the enlarged EU.
The authors outline contrasting views on the current EU situation and debate „whether there is reason for optimism or whether the current situation resembles that of a person jumping off the roof of a house calling out: ‚Until here, everything went well…‘.“
They also reflect upon the more symbolic importance of the Constitution and analyse what it would have implied for the balance of power between the EU institutions.
They believe the temptation to ‚cherry-pick‘ certain parts of the text is „highly regrettable as leaders would then forfeit the most compelling quality of the Constitution: its powerful symbolic value as a statement in support of a reinforced political union.“
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