The continuing financial crisis reaction and lack of courage and perspective of political elites make fear a failure of the historic project of European integration. However, the architectural and democratic supranational rather than the European Union, the result of legal developments unprecedented authorizes think coordination of the decisions of the states of the monetary union does not obey the model followed so far, an intergovernmental exercise and post-democratic power.

The EU Lisbon Treaty is not far from the form of a transnational democracy, because it is part of a process of juridification and civilization of state power that enables capacity building policy beyond the nation states acting. The current collapse of neoliberal illusions promoted the understanding of the functional systems of world society (including financial markets) can no longer be controlled by individual states or coalitions of states. As Jürgen Habermas says: "In a way, politics as such, politics in the singular, is challenged by the need for regulation: the international community of states has to be developed in the sense of a cosmopolitan community of states and citizens of the world '.

This essay on the constitution of Europe is preceded by a study of the relationship between human rights and the concept of human dignity in showing how the combat dynamics of anger, born of the experiences of violation of human dignity, promotes the reasonable expectation of a global institutionalization of human rights.