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Constitutionalising Europe: Dutch Reactions to an Incoming Tide (1948-2005)


ISBN13: 9789089521392
Published: July 2013
Publisher: Europa Law Publishing
Country of Publication: The Netherlands
Format: Paperback
Price: £55.00



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Constitutionalising Europe: Dutch Reactions to an Incoming Tide (1948-2005) aims to solve the riddle of how the relation between the Netherlands and Europe got under pressure. Widely renowned as one of the Founding Fathers of the European Coal and Steel Community and as one of the most loyal participants of European integration in general, the Netherlands surprised friend and foe when on 1 June 2005, its people rejected the European Constitution with a great majority. Until now, no satisfying explanation has been given for this occurrence. This book offers a new, long-term perspective. Based on a wealth of new primary sources – i.e. parliamentary accounts, Council of State advice and interviews with key-figures in the process – this book shows that the origin of the gap between Dutch political elite and society at large, as it became manifest on 1 June 2005, was already latently present within the identity of the Dutch polity for a long time. It is shown that the more the Netherlands stressed its identity as an open nation, the more it got estranged from its own political and constitutional identity. The very zeal to constitutionalize Europe blinded the Dutch political elite for the downsides of this process for national democratic relations.

Subjects:
Legal History, European Jurisdictions
Contents:
Abbreviations of Dutch Political Parties Explained
Successive Dutch Cabinets (1948-now)
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Land of Grotius 1948
Chapter 2. Confirming the Course 1953-1957
Chapter 3. Supranationalisation for Self-Preservation 1957-1979
Chapter 4. First Cracks in the Consensus 1979-1986
Chapter 5. Spring Tide Stress 1986-1997
Chapter 6. Stemming the Tide 1997-2005
Conclusion
Endnotes
References
Parliamentary Sources
Interviewees and Correspondences
Acknowledgements
About the Author