Europe’s constitutional journey has not been a smooth one. On the contrary, it is not an exaggeration to say that Europe’s search for a constitution has turned out to be an opening of Pandora’s box: In the controversy surrounding the European Constitution, all kinds of quarrels and debates are cast on issues ranging from the enlargement of the European Union to its legal-political nature, from the legitimacy of the Union to its very identity, from the role the Union should play in the world to the way its actions influence daily life in its smallest regions
