This book gives a comprehensive account of the drafting of the EU Charter in the first Convention and shows the important contribution of this process to the constitutional development of the European Union. By drawing on a body of empirical data from the Convention in 1999-2000 it shows how the debates about a catalogue of fundamental rights for the EU prior to enlargement triggered a much wider discussion about the basis and basics of European integration. Thus it can shed new light on the EU's ongoing search for legitimacy.

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European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium

Justus Schönlau

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JUSTUS SCHÖNLAU is an Associate Research Fellow at the Centre for European Studies in Brussels. He has published widely on the subject of the EU constitutional process.

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Book Title: Drafting the EU Charter
Book Subtitle: Rights, Legitimacy and Process
Authors: Justus Schönlau
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230513495
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-9373-1Published: 10 October 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-54416-5Published: 01 January 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-51349-5Published: 10 October 2005
Series ISSN: 2662-5873
Series E-ISSN: 2662-5881
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 213
Topics: European Union Politics, Political Science

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights: Legitimating the European Union

Legitimacy and Fundamental Rights

What Kind of Legitimacy for the EU?

Drafting the Charter in the Convention

The Impact of the Charter

Linking Rights, Process and Legitimacy

Back Matter

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