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Cover -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Shaping institutions and policies: The EPP Group in the European Communities -- Shaping European integration: transnational party cooperation after 1945 -- Italo-German dominance: composition and governance -- Forging alliances: co-operation and competition with other political groups -- Federalist vocation: deepening European integration -- Farmers, markets, and new challenges: policy-making in the Communities -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Constitutionalising the Union: The Role of the EPP Group -- Introduction -- The EPP Group and the Single European Act (1986) -- The EPP Group and the Treaty of Maastricht (1992) -- The EPP Group and the Amsterdam Treaty (1997) -- The EPP Group and the Nice Treaty (2001) -- The EPP Group and the Constitutional Treaty (2004) -- The EPP Group and the Lisbon Treaty (2007) -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Co-Shaping the Internal Market: The EPP Group and EU Internal Policies -- Introduction -- From 'talking shop' to empowered co-legislator: The role of the EP in internal policies -- Agricultural policy -- Economic and Monetary Union -- Social policy -- Environmental policy -- Developments in internal policies -- Agricultural policy -- Economic and Monetary Union -- Social policy -- Environmental policy -- The EPP Group in the EP's committees -- The EPP Group and the CAP -- The EPP Group and Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) -- The EPP Group and social policy -- The EPP Group and environmental policy -- Conclusion -- APPENDIX -- Chapter 4 Values, Strategies, Actions: The EPP Group and EU External Relations -- The role of the European Parliament in EU external relations -- Developments in EU external relations since 2004: an overview -- The process of formulating EPP Group positions in EU external relations -- EPP Group cohesion in matters related to the EU external relations.

In this special issue we focus on processes of europeanisation and the work of colonial legacies and their impact on the production of the european body, a body that is always already racialised, classed and gendered. 'european body' can be observed in discourses and practices that constitute the normal/desired/legitimate body and concomitantly impacts notions about the civilised/cultured body, often linked to whiteness, secularism, legitimate class and gender performances. We ask to look back across pasts and into the present in order to explore who currently marks the boundaries of what is considered civilised, cultured, "normal" and comes to define what is considered a european body. What embodies the present, which and whose body epitomises europeaness and how does europeanisation generate (tacit) knowledge about the legitimate body?

Lijphart was the first to emphasize the necessity to study the impact of student mobility upon European integration, but mobility programmes have only been studied in the last decade. The European Commission points to the ERASMUS programme as a successful example of construction of European identity; however, this assumption hasn't yet been empirically proved on an European scale. This paper has been devoted to research of the impact of the ERASMUS programme on fostering European identity in Europe. In academic literature at least two different understandings of the European identity can be distinguished: political and cultural European identity. The quantitative survey (in which 12'173 respondents from 37 European countries took part) provides justification that only every third of students feel more European after studying abroad and that there are different understandings among ERASMUS students regarding what it means to be European. Survey results showed that ERASMUS students feel more European than non‑ERASMUS students and that the ERASMUS students understand European identity as being cultural and political.