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SHAPED BY A LARGELY INSTRUMENTAL ETHICS OF INTEGRATION, TODAY'S EUROPEAN UNION (EU) SITS UNEASILY BETWEEN A EURO-FEDERATION AND A UNION OF NATION STATES, MIRED IN A SUBSTANTIVE IF EASILY EXAGGERATED DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT. THIS HYBRIDITY NEED NOT BE AN INSURMOUNTABLE PROBLEM. INDEED, IT COULD BE AN ASSET. HOWEVER, TO REALIZE ITS POTENTIAL TO COMBINE THE PEOPLE'S SUB-STATE, STATE, AND TRANS-STATE ALLEGIANCES INVOLVES A NORMATIVE SHIFT IN THE UNIFICATION PROCESS. THE TRADITIONAL ELITE-DRIVEN DYNAMIC MUST BE COMPLEMENTED BY AN ETHICS OF PARTICIPATION THAT GRANTS A GREATER ROLE TO EU CITIZENS. A DELIBERATIVE PROCESS THROUGH WHICH CITIZENS COULD NEGOTIATE SOLUTIONS TO CONFLICTS WOULD HELP RECONCILE COMMUNITY-SPECIFIC DUTIES WITH A MORE COSMOPOLITAN REGARD FOR JUSTICE BEYOND BORDERS. A COSMOPOLITAN COMMUNITARIAN MODEL OF EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP, DRAWING ON NEO-REPUBLICAN CONCEPTIONS OF FREEDOM AND GOVERNMENT, WOULD GIVE NORMATIVE COHERENCE AND LEGITIMACY TO THE EMERGENT MULTI-LEVEL EUROPEAN POLITY.