What are the Main Democratic Lessons from the EU's Constitutional Experience?

Abstract

The focus of this panel is on the EU’s protracted process of constitutionalisation. What are the main lessons we can discern from this process with regard to the prospects for supranational democracy in Europe? To consider this it is necessary to clarify the character of the process and its result (the Lisbon Treaty) as well as the conception of democracy that these constitutional processes were set up to and actually dealt with. How well did the process and the result reflect the requisite relevant democratic requirements?

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