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Jonathan White is Professor of Politics at the London School of Economics. His latest book is Politics of Last Resort: Governing by Emergency in the European Union.
Crisis management only blurs ever more the boundary between politics and technical expertise.
Is a centralized European Union compatible with democracy?
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