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Article: The Constitution of Europe: Do the New Clothes Have an Emperor? And Other Essays on European Integration.(Review)
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- Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
- Article date:
- November 1, 2000
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THE CONSTITUTION OF EUROPE: "DO THE NEW CLOTHES HAVE AN EMPEROR?" AND OTHER ESSAYS ON EUROPEAN INTEGRATION. By J.H.H. Weiler.(**) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 364 pp.
From its inception in the 1950s until the early 1990s, the European Union (EU) was largely the creation of politicians, jurists, and technical experts. Its effective sphere of operations was confined for the most part to economic matters. The Single European Act, which entered into force in 1987 and called for the completion of the economic integration project by 1992, marked the end of what might be termed the first, or economic, phase of European integration. With the entry into ...