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Assessing the Legitimacy of the EU's Treaty Revision Methods*
Author(s) -
RISSE THOMAS,
KLEINE MAREIKE
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
jcms: journal of common market studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.54
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1468-5965
pISSN - 0021-9886
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-5965.2007.00703.x
Subject(s) - legitimacy , treaty , convention , dilemma , blame , political science , law and economics , democratic legitimacy , law , unanimity , economics , politics , psychology , philosophy , social psychology , epistemology
How legitimate are the EU's treaty revision procedures, that is, IGCs and the Convention? Since the rejection of the Constitutional Treaty the recurrence to intergovernmental procedures appears as one way out of the current dilemma. We argue instead that the Convention method is not to blame for the current crisis. On the contrary, it increases the legitimacy of EU constitutionalization considerably.