Sag, wo die Soldaten sind, Wo sind sie geblieben? So begann die dritte Strophe von Pete Seeger's legendärem Blumen-Lied. Wie sollte die bittere Melancholie seiner Lyrik zu dem turn zu governance passen, den die Europapolitik offiziös unter dem Kommissionspräsidenten Romano Prodi i.J. 2001...

Free Trade has always been highly contested, but both the arguments about it and the treaties that regulate it have changed dramatically since the Second World War. Under the 1947 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) regime, objections to free trade were essentially economic, and...

'Konstitutionalisierung' ist zum Schlüsselbegriff der Debatten um die Legitimität des Regierens in der Europäischen Union und im internationalen System geworden. Dieser Essay plädiert für eine Rückbesinnung auf eine in diesen Diskussionen weithin vernachlässigte Disziplin. Es geht ihm...

'Unity in Diversity' was the fortunate motto of the otherwise unfortunate Draft Constitutional Treaty. The motto did not make it into the Treaty of Lisbon. This essay argues that it deserves to be kept alive albeit in a new constitutional perspective, namely the re-conceptualisation of European...

European Studies used to be dominated by legal and political science approaches which hailed the progress of European integration and its reliance on law. The recent set of crises which struck the EU have highlighted fundamental problems in the ways and means by which European integration...

"Unity in Diversity" was the fortunate motto of the otherwise unfortunate Draft Constitutional Treaty. The motto did not make it into the Treaty of Lisbon. It deserves to be kept alive in a new constitutional perspective, namely the re-conceptualisation of European law as new type of conflicts...

This discussion of the ECJ in the context of a project on political representation in the EU responds to the Court's changing functions in the integration process and also to the critique which the exercise of this function has provoked in recent years after the Court objected to constitutional...

Ordoliberalismus ist eine theoretische und kulturelle Tradition mit signifikantem sozialen und politischen Einfluss im Nachkriegsdeutschland. Vor der Krise außerhalb Deutschlands nur einer Handvoll Experten bekannt, rückte der Ordoliberalismus mit der Krise ins Zentrum der Aufmerksamkeit....