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Notes on contributors
Berthold Rittberger is professor of international relations at the LMU Munich.
Michael Blauberger is associate professor in European politics and political theory at the University of Salzburg.
Notes
1 See <http://www.jepp-online.com/2016/12/14/the-eu-in-crisis-eu-studies-in-crisis/> (accessed 6 December 2017).
2 See <https://ec.europa.eu/info/business-economy-euro/economic-performance-and-forecasts/economic-forecasts/autumn-2017-economic-forecast_en#autumn-2017-economic-forecast-continued-growth-in-a-changing-policy-context> (accessed 6 December 2012).
3 ‘But where danger threatens/That which saves from it will also grow’ (Friedrich Hölderlin, Patmos, 1803).