Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. What constitution? A rose by any other name --
Chapter 2. An elephant that cannot be defined? What the EU is, and is not --
Chapter 3.Who is the boss? In search of a master of the treaties --
Chapter 4.Looking past the trees to see the wood: construing a hierarchy of norms --
Chapter 5.Into the estuaries and up the rivers: Union law in the national legal orders of the member states --
Chapter 6.A lot more than Brussels bureaucrats: the institutional framework --
Chapter 7.A suprematist composition? Differentiation and flexibility --
Chapter 8.What deficit? The EU system of democracy --
Chapter 9.Civis Europeus Sum: the evolving concept of Union citizenship --
Chapter 10.Taking rights more seriously? The EU system of fundamental rights --
Chapter 11.Broadening horizons? The area of freedom, security and justice --
Chapter 12.The internal market: liberal, social or green? --
Chapter 13.An elephant trumpeting loud and clear or a gaggle of geese? EU external relations --
Chapter 14.Covenants of no strength to secure a man at all? Issues of enforcement and control --
Chapter 15.The elephant in the room? Concluding remarks.
Index