Acceso usuarios
WTE, TWB, JHR
Ten years ago, as the European Constitutional Treaty was made ready for signature, this journal was made ready for launching. Both events would take place at the end of October 2004. Our first issue was, of course, devoted to the Treaty. It broke down the document's substance into twenty-four key topics, each dealt with in turn by the members of the editorial and the advisory boards. From that first issue, the course of this journal would become inspired less by the document, however, than by the events concerning the constitutional settlement as it evolved for the Union. The second issue was occasioned by the event of the Treaty's signing in Rome, on 29 October 2004. The reason was, paradoxically, that this coincided, both in time and in place, with the climax of the clash between the European Parliament and the European Council over the candidacy of Rocco Buttiglione as Commissioner for Justice and Rights. We noted that, auspiciously, these events could pour their political life into the constitutional document, itself somewhat vacuous and pretentious both as to its name and as to its form. Most of the contributions to that second issue then dealt with the domestic political roots of the Commissions authority, next to its roots in the EU appointment procedure
