nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20170426-131625 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 151117s2015||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20170426-131625 doi eng 342 23 Dawson, Mark Author aut Europe Does Need a Constitution. But Of What Kind? Dawson, Mark Verfassungsblog 2015-11-17 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Matej Avbelj’s contribution ‘Now Europe Needs a Constitution’ is surely right in its diagnosis that constitutionalism must play a role in the re-generation of the EU. The gulf between the EU’s leaders and its population, and between distinct groups of EU states, is wider than it has ever been. If constitutionalism is an act of ‘putting things in common’ in a spirit of open dialogue, of deciding on the crucial question about the type of society we want to live in, such a discussion about Europe’s future is sorely needed. The key question, however, is not whether Europe needs a Constitution but what kind of Constitution the EU should build. Many commentators suggest that the lesson to be learned from the failed constitutional project in the early 2000s is that it was too ambitious: too laden with constitutional symbolism and state-paradigms. Perhaps, we argue, the failed constitutional project was not ambitious enough: it made no attempt to break with the models of the previous EU Treaties and in doing so, to capture the political imagination of Europe’s citizenry. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Constitutional Treaty euro crisis European Constitution Lisbon Treaty de Witte, Floris Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/europe-does-need-a-constitution-but-of-what-kind/ raw object