1. L. N. Lindberg and S. A. Scheingold,Europe's Would-be Polity: Patterns of Change in the European Community(Prentice-Hall, 1970).
2. European Council,The Future of the European Union-Laeken Declaration(2002), available at http://europa.eu.int/constitution/futurum/documents/offtext/doc151201_en.htm. The Convention referred to is the body chaired by Valery Giscard d'Estaing, which drafted the first version of the Constitutional Treaty.
3. Does Europe Need a Constitution?
4. Economic integration, democracy and the welfare state