The book contains twelve contributions dealing with the discussion about the European constitution between the contract of Nice and the intergovernmental conference in 2004. They analyze and present suggestions for the questions concerning competence order, the Charter of Fundamental Rights, the role of national parliaments, as well as concept and prospects of a European constitution. The result of an international symposium in Athens, 2001, is an example for European discourse and indispensable for the protagonists of the European constitution convention.