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”Do you think a federation would be the solution for Europe’s economic problems?”, asked the journalist of the princess of an imaginary European country at a crowded press conference. “Any initiative to encourage the cooperation among European countries would be welcome”, replied Her Majesty, with the political correctness and opacity of a European commissioner. The princess of this story is played by Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday, a film by William Wyler released in 1953, one year before the parliamentary rejection of the European Defence Community (EDC) in France, considered the turning point from a timidly political to an almost exclusive economic European integration.
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© 2013 Francisco Seoane Pérez
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Pérez, F.S. (2013). The Antipopular Bias of Integration by Stealth. In: Political Communication in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137305138_3
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