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    STUDIA EUROPAEA - Issue no. 1 / 2009  
         
  Article:   BOOK REVIEW - RUXANDRA IVAN, ROMANIA AND THE EUROPEAN UNION’S CONSTITUTIONAL PROCESS. PARTICIPATION IN THE CONVENTION ON THE FUTURE OF EUROPE, BUCHAREST: BUCHAREST UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2008.

Authors:  CLAUDIA TRIFAN. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  After the 2001‐2005 “constitutional euphoria” (p. 9), the public debates, political analyses and scientific researches on the constitutional process of the European Union have continued with a rather ore temperate discourse. The Convention regarding the future of Europe was indeed a historically symbolic moment in the European construction process tat was not sufficiently valued nor fully understood at the time. For Romania, the Convention marked its first consultation on the future architecture of the European Union to which our country so full of ope wanted to accede. It is from this perspective that Ruxandra Ivan’s academic work sets out to analyze Romania’s role and effort to participate an contribute to an essential reflection on the European Union’s future, which led to the elaboration of the Constitutional Treaty of 2004. The author attempts to answer two questions – “What is europeanness?” and “How European is Romania?” – by approaching the constitutional process of the Union, the European common identity, the core values of the European construction and Romania’s (irrationally) unconditioned support for the EU accession (p. 11).  
         
     
         
         
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