Any attempt at understanding the enlargement process means questioning relationships to difference, relationships to the past, the democratisation processes advocated in the “other Europe” by the European Union and as they are perceived by the upcoming member countries. It requires talking about the European political imagination, both in its singular and its plural forms, and addressing the shifts it is currently experiencing. It involves raising the question regarding the relationship to the new margins of an expanded Europe. And it also entails questioning the “Euro-Atlantic continuum.” Any discussion about democratisation at Europe’s borders means questioning whether a relationship to the other people of Europe can be imagined – one based neither on a logic of inclusion/exclusion, nor on neo-colonisation, but on a relationship of equality in exchange.
Europe in constitution stands as a civil and social sphere to be occupied, a pluri-cultural and intercultural project to be inhabited, and cannot as such be reduced to a question of institution building. How is a constitution, capable of bringing citizens into synch with their desire for Europe, to be envisaged? How are we to move out of the European Union's political blind spot?
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