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Community law was established as a meta-legal order to provide a systematic solution to conflicts betweeen national legal orders. Integration, and in particular integration of law, was re-quired to tackle the functional and normative problems that ensued from the disorganised co-existence of State legal orders in Europe. Integration of law was made compatible with the preserva-tion of autonomy to define the national socio-economic model and structure because early European legislation organised the co-operation of national legal orders. The power to regulate and mould the economy was reinforced, at the same time that the sharpest corners of national power were clipped (by reference to the formal principle of non-discrimination). From the late seventies, the point and purpose of European integration was redefined. L'Europe par le marché resulted in integration through law, making of law the key means through which national regulatory and monetary policies were made to compete with each other. The result was the progressive definition of the content of law by the exercise of economic freedoms, a most peculiar process leading to turning law into a false commodity. Since the late 2000s, the role of law in the process of European integration has been in-creased to the detriment of governance arrangements, but this has only exacerbated the commodifi-cation of law and its submission to the imperative of ensuring the store value of money.

<p align="justify">La serie de crisis que sufre la Unión Europea desde finales de 2006 requieren un análisis sistemático desde una perspectiva constitucional. El presente trabajo tiene como principal objetivos el jurídico-dogmático de esclarecer el contenido sustantivo de la transformación constitucional de la Unión Europea a resultas de las medidas adoptadas para contener y eventualmente superar las citadas crisis; y el valorativo de determinar cuáles son las principales consecuencias que la mutación constitucional en marcha tiene sobre la integridad del ideal regulador del derecho constitucional de los Estados Miembros y de la Unión Europea, el Estado Social y Democrático de Derecho. En este artículo se sostiene que existen razones fundadas para concluir que la mutación constitucional pone en peligro la integridad del edificio constitucional europeo, o lo que es lo mismo, la transformación del derecho europeo en marcha conducirá a la quiebra del estado constitucional, salvo que se ponga remedio y fuerce al tren político, económico y social a cambiar de binario constitucional (a volver, en buena medida, al binario constitucional).
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<p align="justify"><b>The manifold and overlapping crises of the European Union call for a systematic analysis from the perspective of constitutional law. In this article the reader is provided with a legal-dogmatic analysis of the punctual decisions and structural reforms that have been taken to contain and overcome the economic, financial, fiscal, macroeconomic and political crises; an elucidation of the resulting constitutional transformation of European Union law; and a normative assessment of the implications that the resulting constitutional mutation has, very especially with respect to the integrity of the regulatory ideal of the Social and Democratic Rechtsstaat. The main thesis of the article is that the ongoing constitutional mutation constitutes a direct threat to democratic constitutionalism in Europe. Either the constitutional changes are halted and reversed, or democratic politics is bound to become an empty shell.
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The manifold and overlapping crises of the European Union call for a systematic analysis from the perspective of constitutional law. In this article the reader is provided with a legal-dogmatic analysis of the punctual decisions and structural reforms that have been taken to contain and overcome the economic, financial, fiscal, macroeconomic and political crises; an elucidation of the resulting constitutional transformation of European Union law; and a normative assessment of the implications that the resulting constitutional mutation has, very especially with respect to the integrity of the regulatory ideal of the Social and Democratic Rechtsstaat. The main thesis of the article is that the ongoing constitutional mutation constitutes a direct threat to democratic constitutionalism in Europe. Either the constitutional changes are halted and reversed, or democratic politics is bound to become an empty shell. ; La serie de crisis que sufre la Unión Europea desde finales de 2006 requieren un análisis sistemático desde una perspectiva constitucional. El presente trabajo tiene como principal objetivos el jurídico-dogmático de esclarecer el contenido sustantivo de la transformación constitucional de la Unión Europea a resultas de las medidas adoptadas para contener y eventualmente superar las citadas crisis; y el valorativo de determinar cuáles son las principales consecuencias que la mutación constitucional en marcha tiene sobre la integridad del ideal regulador del derecho constitucional de los Estados Miembros y de la Unión Europea, el Estado Social y Democrático de Derecho. En este artículo se sostiene que existen razones fundadas para concluir que la mutación constitucional pone en peligro la integridad del edificio constitucional europeo, o lo que es lo mismo, la transformación del derecho europeo en marcha conducirá a la quiebra del estado constitucional, salvo que se ponga remedio y fuerce al tren político, económico y social a cambiar de binario constitucional (a volver, en buena medida, al binario constitucional).