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National and Regional Symbolic Boundaries in the European Commission

The process of European integration and the transfer of political authority from the national to the European level have led to the emergence of a field of EU policy making in Brussels, which attracts professionals and experts from all EU member states. This book contributes to research on the dynamics of social integration unfolding at the heart of this field. Based on in-depth interviews with officials working for the European Commission the EUs supranational organization the author explores the perception and negotiation of symbolic boundaries related to their diverse national and regional backgrounds. In line with their cosmopolitan attitudes and role-conception as European civil servants, Commission officials tend to de-emphasize national and regional divisions among them. Nevertheless, subtle symbolic boundaries remain in connection with their diverse organizational cultures, working language preferences, professional values and influence and career prospects. This nuanced account of patterns of social categorization and group-making in a European context will appeal to sociologists with interests in European integration and the emergence of social fields and groups beyond the nation state.

Daniel Drewski is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Sociology at the Freie Universitt Berlin, Germany.

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ISBN: 978-0-367-62001-1 (hbk)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781003107439

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This book is based on my doctoral dissertation submitted at the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS) at the Humboldt University Berlin in 2019. I would like to thank my supervisor, Jrgen Gerhards, and second referee, Steffen Mau, for all their support and their helpful suggestions and comments on the dissertation manuscript. This dissertation also benefitted greatly from the many discussions with my colleagues at the BGSS and the Department of Sociology at Freie Universitt Berlin. The fieldwork for this dissertation in Brussels was supported by a short-term doctoral grant of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). I would also like to thank the EU Office of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation for supporting me during my stay in Brussels. Finally, my gratitude goes to all the respondents and informants for this study who have taken their time to answer my questions and for sharing their personal experiences and views with me.

AD	Administrator
COREPER	Permanent Representatives Committee
DE	Germany
DG CLIMA	Directorate-General for Climate Action
DG COMP	Directorate-General for Competition
DG ECFIN	Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs
DG	Directorate-General
ECSC	European Coal and Steel Community
EEC	European Economic Community
EL	Greece
ENA	cole Nationale dAdministration
EPSO	European Personnel Selection Office
ES	Spain
EU	European Union
EURATOM	European Atomic Energy Community
FR	France
GDP	Gross Domestic Product
HU	Hungary
IBSA	Institut Bruxellois de Statistique et dAnalyse
IT	Italy
NATO	North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NGO	Non-Governmental Organization
PhD	Doctor of Philosophy
PiS	Prawo i Sprawiedliwo (Law and Justice Party)
PL	Poland
RO	Romania
SE	Sweden
TFEU	Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
UK	United Kingdom
UN	United Nations
US	United States of America

DOI: 10.4324/9781003107439-1

1.1 Background and research question

The European Union (EU) is the most integrated regional bloc of countries around the world. What began in 1951 with the foundation of an organization of six European countries to create and regulate a common market for coal and steel, expanded since into an organization that experts are struggling to find a proper name for: an organization somewhere between a confederation and a federation of states. The process of European integration is characterized by two related dynamics, commonly referred to as deepening and widening. On the one hand, cooperation between the member states has deepened with the creation of a Single Market, the increasing transfer of political authority from the national to the European level and the emergence of a supranational legal order. On the other hand, the original community of six member states has enlarged in successive waves to 28 member states at its peak (though it recently contracted back to 27 due to the Brexit). It enlarged to Northern European countries that were initially reluctant to join, to Southern European countries that had emerged from authoritarian regimes, and most recently, to 12 countries, most of them located in Central and Eastern Europe, that had been separated from Western Europe by the Iron Curtain during the Cold War.

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