Constitutional Erinnerungsarbeit: Ambivalence and Translation

Contributions dealing with the European constitution have abounded over the last few years. Now that the amended Draft of the Constitutional Treaty has been adopted by the European Council, they are likely to burgeon even more. For scholars working in the field, this creates a paradoxical situation. Why write another piece on Europe's constitutionalization — even if it be with the unmovable confidence that it is necessary to rescue the existing debate from impending debilitation? Under current circumstances, any paper on the issue is doomed to be buried among countless other like-minded interventions.