The accidental constitution : the story of the European Convention / Peter Norman.

Includes documentary annex and name index.

Europe at a crossroads -- A new way to reform the Union -- Pressures for change -- The convention: from conception to skeleton -- Setting up the convention -- early days -- Working groups and constitutions -- Issues and working groups -- Broad constitutional questions -- Who does what and how? Competences and their implementation -- New or expanding policy areas -- Managing democracy in the Union -- The institutions -- Changing dynamics: from skeleton to early draft articles -- The member states awake and the Commission confuses -- Divisions among the member states -- The Praesidium produces -- The end game -- Institutional imbroglio -- The revised draft constitution -- Managing the splits -- Countdown to consensus -- The convention after Thessaloniki -- Evaluation and conclusions -- Documentary annex -- Giscard's draft institutional proposals of 22 April, 2003 -- Draft constitutional treaty: preamble and part I with comments -- Draft constitutional treaty: preamble of part II and e=selected articles form parts III and IV with comments.