caa a22 4500 388045086 CHVBK 20180307125035.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199801 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0020589300061571 doi S0020589300061571 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0020589300061571 Brentford Philip Constitutional Aspects of the Independence of the European Central Bank [Elektronische Daten] [Philip Brentford] At the celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the signature of the Treaty of Rome 1957 on 26 March 1997, Romano Prodi, President of the Italian Council, said that, with the Maastricht Treaty "we are perfecting our common economic constitution”, and that this Treaty should not be seen simply as an "instrument for the introduction of the single currency, but also as the awakening of the European peoples to the necessity of setting limits on the action of governments”. This notion of constitution or of economic constitution has received much attention from European legal scholars within the ongoing debate on constitutionalism and constitutionalisation within the Community legal order. However, constitutionalisation presents us with semantic difficulties, as legal doctrine has to adapt itself to the specificity of Community law. The discussion is further complicated by the divergence of views on the subject of whether the Treaties are a constitution for Europe and, indeed, whether Europe needs a constitution. Before we consider what constitutionalisation signifies, the notion of a constitution and an economic constitution in Community law merit consideration. Copyright © British Institute of International and Comparative Law 1998 International and Comparative Law Quarterly Cambridge University Press 47/1(1998-01), 75-116 0020-5893 47:1<75 1998 47 ILQ https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020589300061571 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020589300061571 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Brentford Philip NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International and Comparative Law Quarterly Cambridge University Press 47/1(1998-01), 75-116 0020-5893 47:1<75 1998 47 ILQ CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence SWISSBIB 350864799 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge