ABSTRACT
The two terms, European integration and European constitutionalism, are widely used as labelling and organizing concepts in this not-easily-described project-process of possible/putative-polity-formation on the continent of Europe since the end of the Second World War. This chapter focuses on both judicial and conceptual consonances between European integration and European constitutionalism and on judicial and conceptual dissonances between European integration and European constitutionalism. It examines the consonances and dissonances between integration and constitutionalism as they occur in political discourse, for example, in the usage of those terms in the Presidency Conclusions released after IGC conferences, or in documents prepared by the Commission, or in statements by Heads of Government to their national audience. It is not difficult to see the conceptual attraction to the European project presented by both the notion of integration and the notion of constitutionalism.
