Final Activity Report Summary - EUROCONSTITUTIONS (L'Europe en Constitution(s); geneses d'une utopie politique et juridique: la constitution europeenne au 20eme siecle)
This convergence is particularly apparent in both the Amato and Duhamel reports of 1999 and 2000 respectively calling for a further 'constitutionalisation' of the treaties and for a European Convention vested with the power to draft a European Constitution.
The main conclusion of this research project is that this convergence between two sets of strategies is not only the product of a conscious plan to strengthen the juridical architecture of the European Union, but also the result of the a long-term transformation of elite recruitment in the European institutions and, more so, the common social and professional trajectories and capitals of the various political and juridical elites which promoted the constitutionalisation and Constitution of Europe.