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Europe's Union in Crisis: Tested and Contested

The Commission: boxed in and constrained, but still an engine of integration

Stefan BeckerCorrespondence[email protected]
,
Michael W. Bauer
,
Sara Connolly
&
Hussein Kassim
Pages 1011-1031 | Published online: 16 Jun 2016

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