A Constitution for an enlarged EU: With the EU being enlarged to 25 member-states surely there is a need to clearly set out the rules of the club?
Wrong. The truth is that the quest for a constitution predates even the EEC and its predecessor, the European Coal and Steel Community. It was a dream of Coudenhove Kalergi, in 1931, when he wrote his book the United States of Europe, and it was a central part of Altiero Spinelli’s ‘Ventotene Manifesto’, written in 1941 under the title Towards a Free and United Europe. Perversely, the constitution – if it happens – will not resolve the institutional stresses brought about by the enlargement of the EU from 15 to 25 nations. The core problems of trying to manage disparate nations, each with their own agendas, remain. But that is hardly surprising. The constitution was never intended to achieve this. Read on…
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- A Constitution for an enlarged EU: With the EU being enlarged to 25 member-states surely there is a need to clearly set out the rules of the club?
- A tidying up exercise: Surely, the EU Constitution just codifies the rules as to how the EU operates?
- At time of lodging Re-Approval, does the Club need to provide the Club Constitution and Club Rules?
