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The Necessary Complexity of Consent: Rules and Norms in EU Treaty Making
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Date Issued
2019-12
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Abstract
The idea that EU treaties have become too difficult to amend is a recurring one. This article explores changing national constitutional rules and norms in the consent stage of EU treaty making in twenty-eight Member States between 1950 and 2016 asking how parliaments, people and courts came to be much more significant for consent, what the consequences of this shift are, and offering some tentative proposals as to how the challenges this raises could be addressed. EU treaty making has become more complex, but we argue that treaties should be more rather than less difficult to amend where concerns over two-level legitimacy rather than two-level games predominate.
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Journal Article
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Journal
Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies
Volume
21
Start Page
297
End Page
317
Copyright (Published Version)
2019 Centre for European Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
Language
English
Status of Item
Peer reviewed
ISSN
2049-7636
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