IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/erp/queens/p0029.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

The Europe of the Regions from Maastricht to Nice

Author

Listed:
  • Charlie Jeffery

Abstract

The project of constitutionalising European Union politics took off in the aftermath of the Maastricht Treaty. The new institutional and policy initiatives agreed at Maastricht confirmed that the EU was taking on more and more attributes of a full-fledged polity, and supported the argument that - like a full-fledged polity - it required a more systematic statement of its fundamental aims and rules than the patchwork of treaties on which it was founded. The subsequent problems a sceptical public opinion in Denmark, France, and the UK created for the Treaty ratification process added grist to this mill: if the ratification problems were to be understood as a condemnation of the remoteness of the EU to the average citizen, then a constitution-making debate clarifying rights, representation and redress could launch a process of reengagement of the citizen with 'Europe'.

Suggested Citation

  • Charlie Jeffery, 2002. "The Europe of the Regions from Maastricht to Nice," Queen's Papers on Europeanisation p0029, Queens University Belfast.
    • Handle: RePEc:erp:queens:p0029
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofPoliticsInternationalStudiesandPhilosophy/FileStore/EuropeanisationFiles/Filetoupload,5276,en.pdf
    File Function: Full text
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Amsterdam Treaty; Maastricht Treaty; Committee of Regions; European law;
    All these keywords.

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:erp:queens:p0029. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Andrew EVANS (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofPoliticsInternationalStudiesandPhilosophy/Research/PaperSeries/EuropeanisationPapers/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.