TY - GEN A1 - Kleger, Heinz T1 - EU-Verfassung im Härtetest T1 - The EU-plebiscite in France : wither the constitution? N2 - The author discusses the failure of the EU-Constitution plebiscite in France and focuses on the different arguments brought forward in the French debate over the EU-Constitution. The draft of the Convent was a complex volume full of compromises. However, in comparison with the Treaty of Nice, it would have been a starting point for achieving a direct trans-national democracy. According to the author, the referendum only failed due to some unique plebiscite elements that were instrumentalised by governments which had overestimated themselves. KW - Europäische Union KW - EU-Verfassungsvertrag KW - direkte Demokratie KW - Frankreich KW - European Union KW - EU-Constitutional Treaty KW - direct democracy KW - France Y1 - 2010 UR - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/4587 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-48022 ER -