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The European Union as a Source of Inspiration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2017

Konrad Schiemann
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What you find inspiring depends to a degree on where you come from and what you are looking for. So, by applying the principle of transparency, let me put my cards on the table. Those who founded the European Communities, and indeed both Jack Mackenzie Stuart and I, went through the last World War. I imagine that I will be the last judge of the Court in Luxembourg of whom this can be said. If you have been through such an experience, it is something which marks your whole life.

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Research Article
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Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies , Volume 14 , 2012 , pp. 325 - 336
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Copyright © Centre for European Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge 2012

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