By Justus Schonlau, Emanuela Lombardo, Miriam Aziz, Dario Castiglione, Chris Longman, Nieves Perez-Solo

This quantity examines the making of the Constitutional Treaty of the eu Union. It does so by means of being attentive to the best way the political actors operated in the conference, via analysing civil society's enter, and by means of monitoring the advance of the constitutional textual content past the conference itself, during the IGC technique and in the european felony process. In discussing the ecu adventure, the authors additionally tackle the query of even if its transnational personality represents a brand new improvement for the idea of structure making.