... trade, competition law and the free movement of workers exclusive to the economy. Although the architects of the European Economic Community such as Monnet and Schumann were intimidated by the prospect of a third world war on the European continent and eager to see the European states associate more closely together, the Treaty of Rome was simply not designed to have a constitutional scope or basis and did not address matters appropriate to such an overarching document. All that said, ever since the signing of the Single European Act in 1986 a deliberate and sustained plan to bring the states of Europe towards a more integrated model of Union which might approach a constitutional status has been pursued by the major European players, in particular France and Germany. The Single European Act was dressed in terms of market unification but in fact the Act initiated policies aimed at considerably more than mere ...

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