WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT / European library

No. 807

*** FRANCOIS FORET: Légitimer l'Europe. Pouvoir et symbolique à l'ère de la gouvernance. Presses de Sciences Po (117 bld Saint-Germain, F-75006 Paris. Tel: [phone] - Fax: [phone] - email: [e-mail] - Internet: www.pressessesciencespo.fr). "Académique - Faits politiques" series. 2008, 290 pp, €25. ISBN 978-2-7246-1081-9.

Political entities have to create themselves in some form and impose symbols on themselves as a seal of legitimacy. The basic hypothesis in...