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      Ruth Wodak

      In most cases, the situation was similar as in the elections to the European Parliament—incidentally, this is the only possibility of formal political participation left to us as European citizens. Characteristically, these elections are used as a battleground for political conflicts inside individual members states, rather than an opportunity for choosing specific programmes or directions in which to develop the European Union and which the European Parliament would actually be able to influence. National interests have therefore not just begun to determine the possibilities of the EU; rather, the contradiction between transnational institutions and nation states has always been inherent in the conception of the EU.