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Local and Regional Politics at the EU level: who is actually represented in the Committee of the Regions? Cover

Local and Regional Politics at the EU level: who is actually represented in the Committee of the Regions?

By: Paweł Bącal  
Open Access
|Jul 2022

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pce-2022-0009 | Journal eISSN: 2787-9038 | Journal ISSN: 1801-3422
Language: English
Page range: 201 - 224
Published on: Jul 12, 2022
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