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Informed by and against the backdrop of the 2019 European Parliament (EP) elections, this innovative book provides a critical assessment of where Europe stands in terms of the quest for achieving democratic legitimacy.

This edited book carries out a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and innovative analysis of the relationship between competitiveness and solidarity in the contemporary European Union.

Explores how European institutions address the issues of the plurality of religious faiths and ethical beliefs in a multicultural society and assesses how this impacts on political integration. This book focuses on the issues of differential treatment across Europe.

Examines the governance of - and politics of regulating - financial services in the EU. This title provides an analysis since the establishment of Economic and Monetary Union and the Financial Services Action Plan, and assesses the EU response to the global financial crisis.

Analyzes the development of the European Parliament's (EP) committees and their relationship with political parties in the light of the EP's increased legislative role.

Investigates the existence of a dichotomy between the capacity of European Commission committee governance to improve system effectiveness and provide efficiency gains as well as sustain democratic credentials. This book asks whether legitimacy and efficiency may be reconciled or become partially compatible in European Commission committees.

Using fresh theoretical insights and empirical data, this title develops a model to analyze the transitional processes of Romania, Turkey, Serbia and Ukraine. Offering a different stance from most of the literature on the subject, this book makes an important contribution to our knowledge of the international dimensions of democratization.

Offers an analysis of the ways in which minority nationalist party attitudes towards European integration have evolved from 1979 to 2005. This book is suitable for students and scholars interested in minority nationalism, the Europeanisation of political parties and comparative research on regional politics.