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Publishers Abstract:
The failure of the referendums in France and in the Netherlands put a decisive brake on the process of ratification of the Constitution, the more so because a number of Member States took this as a reason to freeze their internal procedures. In fact, the challenge facing the members of the European Union was, taking into account the opposition to the Constitution, to define a strategy and then, within the framework of that strategy, find a consensus for a solution. The fears concerned the illusion that the Constitution would lead to a European 'super-state', which is why all the constitutional aspects of the text were erased, and concerned certain economic and social worries, which were duly taken into account. The amended treaties will be subject to legitimate criticism, whether it is their complexity, their lack of transparency or some of their provisions.
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