National Constitutional Concepts in the New Constitution for Europe

European Constitutional Law Review

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 452-480

  Ziller, Jacques ^a  

^a European University Institute   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bicephal Executives; Commission Investiture; Congress of Peoples of Europe; Constitutional Concepts; Delimitation of Powers; Double Headed Executive; D doublement Fonctionelle; European Constitutional History; European Constitutional Tradition; Formal Concept of Law; General Affairs Council; Legislative Council; National Constitutions

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EID: 84926965019     PISSN: 15740196     EISSN: 17445515     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1574019605004529     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Part one of this essay has been published in the previous issue of this review: Jacques Ziller, ‘National Constitutional Concepts in the New Constitution for Europe’, EuConst (2005) p. 247.
2. The original paper, produced in the framework of collective research, has been published in Spanish: ‘La función de los conceptos constitucionales de los Estados miembros en la nueva constitución para Europa’, in Marta Cartabia, Bruno de Witte and Pablo Pérez Tremps (eds.), Itzíar Gómez Fernández (coord.), Constitución Europea y Constituciones Nacionales (Valencia, Tirant Lo Blanch, 2005) p. 27.
3. An Italian version has also been published in Quaderni Costituzionali (2005) p. 67–110: ‘Il ruolo dei concetti costituzionali degli stati membri nella nuova costituzione per l'Europa’.
4. The composition of the second Assemblée Constitutante was approximately the same as that of the first one (roughly 1/3 for each of the three bigger forces quoted Quaderni Costituzionali n. 3, but the MRP had more seats than previously and gained the biggest number of votes.
5. See Jacques Ziller, ‘La ratification des traités européens après des référendums négatifs: que nous disent les précédents danois et irlandais?’, Rivista Italiana di Diritto Pubblico Comunitario (2005) p. 341.
6. See also Part I of this essay in Ziller, Rivista Italiana di Diritto Pubblico Comunitario n. 1, at p. 264–265.
7. On Art. 146 of the Basic Law, which is usually quoted as the only possibility for a nation wide referendum in Germany see Monica Bonini, Il potere costituente del popolo Tedesco - Riunifi-cazione della Germania e integrazione europea (Milan, Giuffrè 2001) p. 149.
8. Etude de faisabilité. Contribution à un avant-projet de Constitution de l'Union Européenne, see Part I of this essay in Ziller, Il potere costituente del popolo Tedesco - Riunifi-cazione della Germania e integrazione europea n. 1, at p. 261.
9. Ziller, Il potere costituente del popolo Tedesco - Riunifi-cazione della Germania e integrazione europea n. 1. In the framework of the ‘After 2004’ project, in which context this essay was originally written, another paper has also examined the theme of ‘The Influence of National Constitutional Law on European Union Law: The Emergence of a European Parliamentary Model’.
10. See Stefania Ninatti, ‘La formula parlamentaria europea. Desde sus origines hasta el Tratado constitucional’, in Cartabia, De Witte and Perez-Tremps, Ziller, Il potere costituente del popolo Tedesco - Riunifi-cazione della Germania e integrazione europea n. 1. In the framework of the ‘After 2004’ project, in which context this essay was originally written, another paper has also examined the theme of ‘The Influence of National Constitutional Law on European Union Law: The Emergence of a European Parliamentary Model’.
11. See Stefania Ninatti, ‘La formula parlamentaria europea. Desde sus origines hasta el Tratado constitucional’, in Cartabia, De Witte and Perez-Tremps, Il potere costituente del popolo Tedesco - Riunifi-cazione della Germania e integrazione europea n. 1, at p. 87.
12. For the Italian version: Stefania Ninatti, ‘La formula parlamentare europea dagli esordi al trattato costituzionale’, Rivista Italiana di Diritto Pubblico Comunitario (2004) p. 1395. This paper also provides an important field for further research in European constitutional law and should not be left aside by young scholars looking for interesting research topics.
13. See also the website of the After 2004: The Integration of the European Constitutional Treaty into the National Constitutions: (original versions and English translations). n. 1, at p. 87.
14. For the Italian version: Stefania Ninatti, ‘La formula parlamentare europea dagli esordi al trattato costituzionale’, Rivista Italiana di Diritto Pubblico Comunitario (2004) p. 1395. This paper also provides an important field for further research in European constitutional law and should not be left aside by young scholars looking for interesting research topics. See also the website of the After 2004: The Integration of the European Constitutional Treaty into the National Constitutions: (original versions and English translations).
15. See Ziller, Rivista Italiana di Diritto Pubblico Comunitario n. 1, at p. 254–255 (n. 9).
16. On the ‘Barroso Drama’ see the articles in EuConst (2005), p. 153 ff.
17. and especially W.T. Eijsbouts, ‘Campidoglio, Rome - 29 October 2004: How the Form Was Brought to Matter’, p. 155.
18. Georges Scelle, ‘Le phénomène juridique du dédoublement fonctionnel’, in Rechtsfragen der internationalen Organisation, Festschrift für Hans Wehberg (Frankfurt am Main 1956) p. 324–342. Scelle (1878–1961) was one of France's most famous specialists of International Public Law. Two of his books deserve special attention from the point of view of European integration: L'Union européenne, written together with B. Mirkine-Guetzévitch (Paris, Delagrave 1931) and Le fédéralisme européen et ses difficultés politiques (Nancy, Centre européen universitaire 1952).
19. V. Cuesta, ‘Designing the first transnational citizens' initiative’, in D. Martinelli & B. Kaufmann (eds.), The European Constitution - Bringing in the People (Amsterdam, Initiative & Referendum Institute Europe; Bern, Presence Suisse 2004), p. 30
20. V. Cuesta, ‘Six The Future of the European Citizen Initiative’, in B. Kaufmann & M.D. Waters (eds.), Direct Democracy Europe (Durham, Carolina Academic Press 2004), p. 133.
21. See J. Ziller, ‘Le contrôle du pouvoir réglementaire en Europe’, in Actualité Juridique, Droit Administratif (1999) p. 635.
22. The French Conseil Constitutionnel in its decision of 18 Nov. 2004 and the Spanish Tribunal Constitucional in its opinion of 13 Dec. did their best to avoid any interpretation of Art. I-6 which would have indicated there could be a conflict with national constitutions; see on these decisions the annotations by Camilo B. Schutte and Guy Carcassonne, EuConst (2005), respectively p. 281 & p. 293.
23. In its time, the ‘Common decision on extremists’ (Extremistenbeschluss) of 1972 has been quite famous as a basis for so-called professional exclusions (Berufsverbote), see E.W. Böckenförde, Ch. Tomuschat & D. Umbach (eds.): Extremisten und öffentlicher Dienst - Rechtslage und Praxis des Zugangs zum und der Entlassung aus dem öffentlichem Dienst in Westeuropa, USA, Jugoslawien und der EG (Baden-Baden, Nomos 1981).