TY  - JOUR
T1  - El Derecho Constitucional Europeo: ¿una disciplina autónoma?
A1  - Pinon, Stéphane
PB  - Junta de Andalucía: Instituto Andaluz de Administración Pública
YR  - 2010
UL  - http://biblioteca.ararteko.eus/Record/dialnet-ar-18-ART0000386586
AB  - A constructive reading of the topic requires a «positive» answer. However, the dangers
remain: for the traditional disciplinary divisions, for the partisans of a «statecentric
» vision in constitutional law, for the autonomy of the classical fields of study
with this new dominant discipline. Before attempting to establish the premises of a
«science» of the European constitution, the project�s task is to remind us that the
elements allowing us to identify this constitution exist.
The first component of our demonstration once more underlines the state of disuse
of a large part of the conceptual apparatus of the French constitutional doctrine. In
turns, «a series of false arguments claiming that there is no European constitution»
is thus outlined (the grouping of State / Constitution, the absence of one constituting
people, or the deficit in democratic legitimacy). Quite logically, our analysis then
focuses on the «availability of true arguments» which admit that an acquired constitutional
practice, progressively systematized by the judges in Luxembourg, has developed
over the primary conventional basis. The second component of our demonstration
�the more innovative one� consists in proposing new conceptual markers, necessary for the setting up of any new autonomous discipline. After mentioning the
existence of stimulating works contributing to the elaboration of a new doctrinal grammar
(notably the writings of Armin Von Bogdandy and Ingolf Pernice), we suggest
abandoning the reflex of using concepts such as «the separation of powers» or the
myth of «unity» in the study of the new European constitutional system. Other notions,
such as the «coordination» of powers (horizontal, as well as vertical coordination),
the «fragmentation» of sovereignty or of the decision-making processes, the
«intertwining» of legitimacies, appear to us much more functional within the framework
of the Union.
Additionally, we propose to avoid searching for interpretative tools for this new language
of powers first and foremost in the writings of Montesquieu, C. Schmitt and J.
Habermas, but, instead, to direct our attention to the book of H. Kelsen, «La
Démocratie. Sa nature - Sa valeur». Kelsen first advises a useful clearing of the interpretative
field of democracy from all fictions which clutter the vision (for example,
that of a «united» people or of a public will). Then, in a more constructive effort,
he proposes to ground democratic culture in a «relativist philosophy». Within
the framework of governance shared by «the twenty-seven», the schema outlined in
his book, a schema of relation between the powers - on the basis of a process of
confrontation of interests, of «compromise», of dynamic integration of the plurality
by continuously renewed accommodation between the majority and the minority -
seems in many respects to be functional.
KW  - Derecho constitucional europeo
KW  - Metodología
KW  - Constitución europea
KW  - Democracia
KW  - Compromiso
KW  - Kelsen
KW  - European constitutional law
KW  - Methodologie
KW  - European constitution
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Compromise
ER  -