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Comment on Dagmara Kornobis-Romanowska – Conceptual Changes in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice through the Constitutional Treaty
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- Part III: Sectoral Differentiation in the Constitution
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- German Law Journal , Volume 6 , Issue 11: The Unity of the European Constitution: 2nd German-Polish Seminar on the Constitutional Law of the European Union , 01 November 2005 , pp. 1641 - 1647
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- Copyright © 2005 by German Law Journal GbR
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