This book gives a comprehensive account of the drafting of the EU Charter in the first Convention and shows the important contribution of this process to the constitutional development of the European Union.
JUSTUS SCHÖNLAU is an Associate Research Fellow at the Centre for European Studies in Brussels. He has published widely on the subject of the EU constitutional process.
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Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction: The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights - Legitimizing the European Union Legitimacy and Fundamental Rights What Kind of Legitimacy for the EU? Drafting the Charter in the Convention The Impact of the Charter Linking Rights, Process and Legitimacy Select Bibliography Appendix