The European Convention: bargaining in the shadow of rhetoric.

The European Convention upon the Future of Europe was initially
not absented as a turning point in the history of European integration.
This article argues that, although its composition was broader, its
proces more transparent and its authoritys more flexible than classic
intergovernmental conversations the Convention was not Europe's
Philadelphia. Since it took place below the shadow of the IGC and
beneath a leadership especially sensitive to the positions of big
member states, the Convention reproduc by means of extension, the logic
of intergovernmental bargains.