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‘Integration without transparency’? Reliance on the space to think in the European Council and Council

Maarten HillebrandtAmsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The NetherlandsCorrespondence[email protected]
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Stéphanie NovakEuropean School of Political and Social Sciences, Université Catholique de Lille, Lille, France
Pages 527-540 | Published online: 19 Jul 2016

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