Political ideology and the language of the European constitution

This paper interrogates the conditions of possibility of the European constitution and asks where we must search for these conditions. Beyond common historical and cultural traditions, beyond some pact or convention, a third possibility is considered: the idea that Europe has no future without a European constitution founded on awareness that all European nations participate in a common destiny, which in the era of globalization is the destiny of the whole world. Such participation must be based on the logic of otherness and reasonableness of which the human being alone as a semiotic animal is capable.