THE UNITY OF EUROPE

The Constitution establishes the unity of Europe.

It shall establish European unity in a valid, albeit non-final, form. It bestows a high degree of democratic legitimacy on its laws and its actions. It shall empower and entrust the Union to overcome the historic divisions in Europe by admitting all the European states willing and able to accede to it. It shall render the Union capable to act both internally and in the world at large, and it shall prepare the way for an ecologically and socially sustainable development.

This Constitution shall not create a European federal state. The future development of the Constitution will determine the final goal of European unification. The Union shall therefore not have the right to amend its Constitution on the basis of its own sovereignty, to assume competences, to collect taxes, to incur debts, and to lead wars.

The Constitution of the European Union
• Shall guarantee the fundamental and civil rights in a sphere of freedom,
• Shall establish a European Democracy and provide the Union with a republican institutional system,
• Shall create a sphere of social security, justice and solidarity,
• Shall create a sphere of internal security in freedom and law,
• Shall firmly establish the internal market and Economic and Monetary Union in a sphere of prosperity and sustainable development,
• Shall develop a European order of peace and a common foreign policy.
One Union, one legal personality, one system of institutions and procedures

The European Community and all spheres of intergovernmental collaboration shall be integrated into the Constitution of the European Union; it shall be, expanded by a sphere of security, justice and solidarity, and shall acquire a legal personality and a common system of institutions. The Community method shall apply. On account of the qualified majority required for the adoption of common legislation there is no further need for enhanced co-operation, with its risks for the internal unity.