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European Elites on the European Union: What Vision for the Future?

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The European Union and World Politics

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What is the EU, what should it be, how far should it expand, and what should it do? These are questions European elites are now asking themselves. But there is little agreement. The problem is not just that the political elites of the 27 member states differ in their ideas about what the European Union is and their countries’ role in it. They also have very different visions of what the EU should be, how far it should go in terms of territory, and what it should do in the world.

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    Andrew Gamble (Professor of Politics) & David Lane (Fellow of Emmanuel College) (Professor of Politics) &  (Fellow of Emmanuel College)

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Schmidt, V.A. (2009). European Elites on the European Union: What Vision for the Future?. In: Gamble, A., Lane, D. (eds) The European Union and World Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230246188_14

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