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Europeanization through its instrumentation: benchmarking, mainstreaming and the open method of co-ordination … toolbox or Pandora's box?

Isabelle BrunoCorrespondence[email protected]
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Sophie JacquotCorrespondence[email protected]
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Lou MandinCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 519-536 | Published online: 17 Aug 2006

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