Part II

The main themes of the European Summer University, organized under the auspices of CERCOP at the Faculty of Law of the University of Montpellier I, under the academic coordination of Professors D. Rousseau and J. Roux, focused on two major processes: the formation and evolution of the European Union and the methods used in European integration, namely the intergovernmental method of cooperation and the supranational method of integration, which, when combined, can give rise to a third method—the Community method—and the process of constitutionalizing the Union and Community law, which opens the possibility for the emergence of a European social body—a community of citizens that could lead to a change in the very legal nature of the Union. One of the possible future solutions that emerged from the discussions, at the level of institutional structure, was the creation of a bicameral Parliament which, in one scenario, would consist of the current Council and the current European Parliament, and, in another scenario, of the national parliaments and representatives elected by European citizens.

Keywords: methods of European integration, constitutionalization, institutional structure, fundamental rights, European Parliament