ABSTRACT
Standard portrayals of modern government tend to focus on the national and sub-national levels of government. The fact that modern governments for quite a long time have been involved in a multitude of international bodies across most policy areas does not seem to have changed this perspective profoundly. In this article, however, I argue that European governments, or, more correctly, parts of national governments, over the last couple of decades have to some extent become parts of a kind of European government as well. This is due to quite particular institutional developments at both the European and the national level.
