EUROPEAN CONSTITUTIONALISM AND ITS FUTURE AFTER BREXIT!

Year 2017, Volume: 8 Issue: 2, 551 - 572, 31.12.2017

İlyas Fırat Cengiz

https://doi.org/10.21492/inuhfd.353082

Abstract

Constitutionalism and the EU
constitution still keep their distinctive place in European Union (the EU)
studies. The concept of constitutionalism has legal and institutional
dimensions, which have an integrative influence over the people of the Union.
It implies effective relationships within social actors so as to create social
ordering and cultural ideas. For that reason, diversities and different
interest actors within the Union require valid, reasonable, symbolic and
normative elements such as social identity, catastrophic events, and common history,
culture and religion in order to bind people together in the Union and to
generate a common mental process. Yet in case of a crisis within the EU – such
as identity, integration, constitution, and democratic deficit etc. – the
fundamental reason for this would be the lack of constitutive element known as
the raison d’être of integration. For instance, democracy deficit in the policy
and law making process of the EU is regarded as one of the main issues. The
citizens of the Member States have been excluded and they have been losing
their interests of and support to EU policies. This is closely related to
legitimacy of the constitution of the EU as well as creating common mental
process. In this manner, BrExit is the historic event that all these crises and
problems have obviously revealed. It divulges how EU constitutionalism fails in
creating common legal and institutional dimensions. BrExit referendum is taken
as a catalyser event creating huge impacts on constitutionalism and social
integration of the EU. BrExit implies that preserving national sovereignty with
high level of legitimacy has kept its importance over the supranational project
of the Union challenging with democracy deficit, limited legitimacy, and lack
of common mental process for European demos.

Keywords

Constitutionalism, the European Union, constitution, integration, legitimacy, Brexit

AVRUPA ANAYASALCILIĞI VE BREXIT SONRASI GELECEĞİ!

Abstract

       Anayasalcılık ve anayasanın kendisi hala Avrupa
Birliği (AB) çalışmalarında önemli bir yer edinmektedir. Anayasalcılık konsepti
AB vatandaşlar üzerinde entegrasyonu sağlayan bir etkisi olan yasal ve kurumsal
boyutları içermektedir. Anayasalcılık kültürel fikirler ve sosyal düzenleyiş
yaratan, sosyal aktörler arasında etkileyici ilişkileri kapsamaktadır.  Bu nedenle, birlik vatandaşlarını birlikte
tutabilmek için ve ortak bir akli süreç oluşturabilmek için, birlik
içerisindeki farklı çıkar grupları ve çeşitlilikler geçerli, makul sembolik ve
normatif unsurlara - sosyal kimlik, feci-yıkımsal olaylar ve ortak tarih,
kültür, din, - ihtiyacı vardır. Fakat, AB'nin herhangi bir krizi durumunda -
örneğin; kimlik, entegrasyon, anayasa, ve 
demokrasi açığı gibi - entegrasyonun varlık sebebi olarak bilinen kurucu
unsurların eksikliği bu krizlerin temel sebep olmaktadır. Örneğin, AB
politikaları ve kanunlarını yapma sürecinde demokrasi eksikliği en temel konu
olarak kabul edilebilir. AB vatandaşları bu süreçlere dahil edilmemiş ve onlar
AB politikalarına olan desteklerini ve ilgilerini kaybetmişlerdir. Bu durum AB
anayasasının meşrutiyeti ile ve ortak akli süreç yaratma ile yakından
alakalıdır. Bu bağlamda Brexit bu problemleri ve krizleri ortaya çıkaran tarihi
bir olaydır. Aynı zamanda Brexit AB anayasalcılığının ortak bir yasal ve
kurumsal boyut oluşturmada başarısız olduğunu ortaya koymaktadır. Brexit referandumu
burada katalizör bir olay olarak kabul edilerek AB toplumsal entegrasyonu ve
anayasalcılığı üzerinde çok büyük bir etkisi olmaktadır. Brexit meşru ulusal
egemenliğin sınırlı toplumsal meşrutiyete sahip olan, demokratik eksiklik ile
yüzleşen ve "Avrupa halkı" için sınırlı seviyede ortak akli sürece
sahip olan ulus üstü bir proje olan AB ye karşı önemini hala koruduğu ortaya
koymuştur.

Keywords

Anayasalcılık, Avrupa Birliği, anayasa, entegrasyon, meşruiyet, Brexit

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