CIDEL ended officially on 31 October 2005, after a duration of three years.
This website will continue to be updated with new publications from the project.

CIDEL involves ten partner institutions in six European countries. Scientific Responsible is Prof. Erik O. Eriksen at the coordinating partner ARENA at the University of Oslo.See also the Integrated Project RECON - Reconstituting Democracy in Europe, which started on 1 January 2007 and will last for five years. The project is coordinated by Prof. Erik O. Eriksen at ARENA. Much of the research from CIDEL will be developed further in RECON, which consists of nine thematic work packages.

Digital version of the Constitutional Treaty

 A digital version of the Constitutional Treaty has been
prepared by Brit Helle Aarskog under the CIDEL project.

News

CIDEL Newsletter No 9 - August 2006

(Archive: CIDEL Newsletter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)

• New book: The European Union and the Public Sphere: A communicative space in the making?, edited by John Erik Fossum and Philip Schlesinger. This book is the fourth in the series: Routledge Studies on Democratizing Europe. (May 2007)

• Report from CIDEL WP 2: "Public Sphere and Civil Society? Transformations of the European Union", edited by John Erik Fossum, Philip Schlesinger and Geir Ove Kværk. (May 2007)

• Report from CIDEL concluding conference. The CIDEL consortium held its concluding conference in Florence in September 2005. A newly published report contains the proceedings of the conference. See more here.

• CIDEL project evaluated by the Commission. A recent evaluation report of CIDEL states that the project is an 'outstanding contribution to the state of the art in the most recent and innovative development of normative-analytical approaches to European integration.' Read the report here.

• New book: Questioning EU Enlargement: Europe in search of identity, edited by Helene Sjursen. This book is the third in the series: Routledge Studies on Democratizing Europe.
  (July 2006)

• JEPP Special Issue on European Foreign Policy. The recent issue of the Journal of European Public Policy is a Special Issue on European foreign policy, edited by Helene Sjursen. The issue, entitled ‘What Kind of Power? European Foreign Policy in Perspective’, examines the question of the EU as a so-called normative or civilising power in the international system. (February 2006)

• New book: Making the European Polity:
  Reflexive integration in the EU, edited by Erik O. Eriksen. This is the second book in the Routledge Studies on Democratizing Europe. (June 2005)

• Digital version of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe. A digital version of the latest version of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe has been prepared by Brit Helle Aarskog under the CIDEL project. The logical document structure is captured and refashioned in a hypertextual remediation of the textual content. (December 2004)

• CIDEL book-series on Routledge. The first book in the Routledge Studies on Democratizing Europe: Developing a Constitution for Europe, edited by Erik O. Eriksen, John Erik Fossum and Agustín José Menéndez. (March 2004)

• Website on The European Constitution. The Universidad de Zaragoza (CIDEL partner) has established a webpage on the European Constitution. (March 2004)