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News Sources and Decision-Making in the EU Council: A Rejoinder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2013

Tim Veen  and
Jonathan Sullivan
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Government and Opposition , Volume 44 , Issue 4 , 2009 , pp. 471 - 475
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