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The EU Council: Shedding Light on an Opaque Institution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2013

Jonathan Sullivan  and
Tim Veen
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Government and Opposition , Volume 44 , Issue 1 , 2009 , pp. 113 - 123
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