Bullettin n. 1/2011
June 2011
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Blanc Didier
    L'adhésion de la Turquie à l'Union européenne – L'hypothèque constitutionnelle française
    in Revue de l'Union européenne/Revue du Marché Commun et de l'Union européenne , n. 549, juin ,  2011 ,  391-394
    European Union territorial integration requires its enlargement towards countries that are increasingly remote from its historical centre of gravity. Thus in spite of its longstanding relationship with the European Union, the prospect of Turkey's membership renewed the debate due to specific features whose institutional repercussions raise concern to the point of prompting modifications that affect the internal legal order of some member countries. Such is the case in France, whose article 88-5 of the Constitution, which requires ratification by referendum for any membership treaty, was the subject of a new revision in order to open again the option of parliament ratification. Without reverting to the initial system entrusting the President of the Republic with discretionary power, the Constitution intention, though it does not end the ambiguity entirely, offers more favourable constitutional conditions for Turkey's membership.
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