The comparative paper EU-27 revisited: discourses and debates on European integration after the convention and big bang enlargement. Summarising major trends of eight EU-27 Watch issues (May 2009) is based on the rich material of the eight issues of EU-27 Watch. Tanja Leppik-Bork and Julian Plottka summarise the main events regarding deepening and widening during the last five years of European integration and complement them with insights into the respective national debates as represented in the EU-27 Watch issues, while Barbara Lippert presents six observations on deepening and widening based on the debates collected in the eight EU-27 Watch issues.

The Institute for European Politics (IEP) in Berlin coordinated and edited EU-27 Watch. Contact persons at the IEP are Elfriede Regelsberger (elfriede.regelsberger(at)iep-berlin.de) and Tanja Leppik-Bork (tanja.leppik-bork(at)iep-berlin.de).

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