Internal market: Gesture politics? Explaining the EU's response to the financial crisis

Journal of Common Market Studies

Volumn 48, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages 119-141

  Buckley, James ^a,b   Howarth, David ^b  

^a European Parliament ^*  (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 77956053772     PISSN: 00219886     EISSN: 14685965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5965.2010.02097.x     Document Type: Article

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