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The epilogue reflects upon the contributions of the book, bridging their different ways of approaching, analysing, and interpreting EU politicisation. It synthesises the main results of each chapter in the three thematic clusters of the book. The book illustrates how many of the features in European politics that were intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic were already showing in the context of the 2019 European elections. In the epilogue, lessons are drawn for future research on EU politicisation as well as the Future of Europe debates. The epilogue also outlines a research agenda that opens avenues for interesting new dilemmas and research questions of how the EU becomes politicised, by whom, and with what potential empirical and normative implications.
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Haapala, T., Oleart, Á., Beyer, J. (2022). Epilogue: Tracing the Politicisation of the EU—A Research Agenda for Exploring the Politicising Strategies in the Future of Europe Debates. In: Haapala, T., Oleart, Á. (eds) Tracing the Politicisation of the EU. Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82700-7_13
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