During the last decade, and particularly in the last few years, the concepts of ‘civil dialogue’ and ‘civilsociety’ have found places in the discourses of the European institutions. The role of civil societyorganisations in ‘international governance structures’ has already been...

The EU has over decades gradually developed a material constitutional arrangement, with very limited public input. Since 2001, the Laeken constitutional process which produced the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe has become greatly politicized. This automatically directs our...