Max Haller's impressive book presents an  analysis of the process of European integration which keeps the relation between elites and citizens  at the forefront.  It is shown on the basis of new empirical data (surveys, interviews, analyses of documents and biographies) that European integration has been led since the beginning by the elites and that today there exists a considerable split between elites and citizens, becoming more profound in the course of time.

The book covers the following themes:

• the structure, interests and behaviour of the different elites...