Building Europe. The cultural politics of European integration

Inventing EuropeForging a European nation-state? The European Uniona nd questions of culture; Creating the people´s Europe: symbols, history and invented traditions; Citizenship of the Union: the cultural construction of an European citizen; Symbolising boundaries;: the single currency and the art of European gevernance. EU civil servants: A ´supranational´ civil service? The role of the commission in the integration process; The Brussels context: integration and engrenage among EU elites; Transnational, supranational or post-national? The organisational culture of the Commission; Conclusions: European construction, democracy and the politics of culture.