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The State of the European Union. The European Parliament faces its most important elections yet

Prologue. The future of Europe	7
Introduction	11
Spain before a new European political cycle	15
More just. More social. Less unequal. What Germans expect from Europe	23
Emmanuel Macron:the end of an exception	31
Portugal. Uncertainty and diversity	36
Right-wing populismin the EU: a threat to the integration process	43
The difficult road towards a necessary European Federal Union	55
The challenge of European citizenship: freedom,participation, welfare and culture	67
2018: a year of slow progress in eurozone reform	71
Social Europe – naming the myth, preserving the model and taking concrete action	81
Global agreements on migration and refugees:challenges and proposals	91
The United States: widening the breach with Europe	101
Protecting its citizens is becoming an ever more central part of the European Union’s job, with the development of the Common Security and Defence Policy and the implementation of Permanent Structured Cooperation	107
The uncertainties of Brexit: quo vadis, Britannia?	115
A Europe that protects Spaniards	127
Recommendations	134
Biographies	141
Acronyms and abbreviations	146

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