The paper examines the possibility to keep the acquis of the Constitutional Treaty in terms of simplification of the EC-EU treaties and of rationalisation of the EU legal system if the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe were not to be ratified in the form it has been signed on 29...

As is highlighted by this study, the CoR is well placed to establish a link between subsidiarity, proportionality and good governance, on the one hand, and the protection and promotion of cultural diversity in the Union, on the other, since it is itself an expression of that cultural diversity,...