Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Report on the conference; Session I. The European Architecture (Constitutional Order and Charter of Fundamental Rights): Europe 2000 - The constitutional agenda; Drafting a charter of fundamental rights of the European Union; On human rights and the idea of a European charter of fundamental rights; The EU charter of fundamental rights: a building block for the European constitutional order; The impact of the EU Charter of fundamental rights on the candidate countries; Institutional and constitutional challenges for the European Union - some reflections in the light of the Treaty of Nice; Session II. The National Level: Impact on Constitutions and Courts of EU Member States: The Dutch constitution and Dutch constitutional values; Constitutional aspects of European Union membership in the original six member states: model solutions for the applicant countries?; The British way: the cohabiting with community law; Ireland and the European Union: constitutional law and practice; The Danish constitutional order; The Spanish constitutional order; The adaptation of the Portuguese constitutional order to community law; The European Union and the Greek constitutional order; Introduction to the problems in the Austrian, the Finnish, and the Swedish constitutional order; The constitutional impact of the forthcoming enlargement of the EU: what can be learnt from the experience of the existing member states?; Session III. National Level: Impact on the Constitutions and Courts of the Candidate Countries: Europe agreements in the light of sovereignty and legitimacy: case of Estonia; Introduction to the partnership and cooperation agreements; Constitutional questions raised by the proposed accession of Malta to the European Union in the general context; The constitutional impact of enlargement at EU and national level - the case of the Republic of Cyprus; Introduction to the constitutional problems of accession of Turkey; Legal and quasi-legal thresholds of the accession of the Czech Republic to the EC; The impact of the European integration process on the creation of the broad lines of the constitution of the Republic of Poland and on the political practices of the country; Estonian constitutional problems in accession to the EU; Constitutional amendments due to Bulgarian full EU membership; Constitutional problems of accession in Romania; Constitutional questions of the preparation of Hungary to accession to the European Union; Constitutional aspects of the accession of the Slovak Republic to European Union; The impact of the European integration process on the constitution of Latvia; Lithuania: the constitutional impact of the enlargement at national level; Constitutional problems in the period of pre-accession in the Republic of Slovenia; Constitutional impact of the eastward enlargement in Central-Eastern Europe; Report on Session III; Session IV. IGC and Future Perspectives for the European Architecture: The constitutional issues on the IGC 2000 agenda; Reflections on a new European architecture; Final Session. Practical Implementation of the Challenges of Accession: Practical implementation by the acceeding candidate countries of the constitutional acquis of the EU; Problems and challenges; The amendments of the Czech constitution for the accession to the European Union; The German experience to meet the challenges of reunification; The impact of the EU charter of fundamental rights in the perspective of enlargement; Summing-up and conclusions; PostScriptum: the Irish referendum on the treaty of Nice and Article 10 EC; Annexes; List of participants.

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