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EP seats: The politics behind the math

The paper examines the basic concepts and political motives behind the allocation of seats in the European Parliament and negotiations in the last inter-governmental conferences. It finds that the discussion reflects unresolved ideological differences, and that hardly any proposed model meets the requirement for a solution once and for all.

Axel Moberg | A. Moberg

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