ABSTRACT
Summarizing the findings of a two-year anthropological study on the ideologies
and working practices of EU officials in Brussels, Shore notes that:
What struck me during many long interviews and conversations with EU
officials was the discourse they used to describe themselves and the process of
European integration. In their everyday speech, as well as in their official
texts, Commission officials continually referred to European unification using
journeying motifs and travelling metaphors. The process of European
integration was variously characterized as a ‘journey’, ‘road’ or ‘path’ . . .
