ABSTRACT
Territorial integrity of the states is a feature that is granted by most of the democratic nation-state’s constitutional regimes in Europe. On the contrary, European history shows that even in contexts of the highest escalations of conflicts, parties end up reaching agreements: the differences among cases reside, mostly, in the time and costs that were necessary to reach those agreements. While European national political facts continue to be relevant, the truth is that we are moving towards a new equilibrium where some issues are decided autonomously and others are co-decided through a process of delegation and sovereignty transfer. Traditionally, the demos could be defined, in its simplest definition, as the populace of a democracy, as a political unit. However, in a democratic context and an interdependent Europe, the only way of addressing claims linked to the will to decide of a national political fact is through negotiation and agreement.
