1. Introduction: the dynamics of European integration 1; 2. The European Union's democratic deficit and the search for a European demos 13; 3. The identity of a multinational polity 37; 4. Language and politics: a challenge for Europe 76; 5. The language question in the institutional complex of the European Union 111; 6. Political communication in the transnational civil society 139; 7. Recognition, self-determination and integration in a union of diversity 180
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