"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...

The European Union is in troubled waters. Its original reliance on law as the object and agent of the integration project and on the “economic constitution” which the EMU, as accomplished by the Treaty of Maastricht, were expected to complete have proven to be unsustainable. Following the...

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...

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....

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...

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....