Download or read book Drafting the EU Charter written by J. Schönlau and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-10-10 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. By drawing on a body of empirical data from the Convention in 1999-2000 it shows how the debates about a catalogue of fundamental rights for the EU prior to enlargement triggered a much wider discussion about the basis and basics of European integration. Thus it can shed new light on the EU's ongoing search for legitimacy.