Representing Europeans is a major new reassessment of the problems facing the European Union. Richard Rose brings decades of experience as a political scientist to bear on the deep, structural problems currently facing the EU. He spells out exactly why it can no longer carry out integration by stealth. Extraordinary challenges – such as saving the Eurozone and maintaining the free movement of peoples – now impose high-profile economic and political costs devoid of obvious benefits. These in turn create huge political strains which the unrepresentative EU apparatus is unable to cope with. The issue of representation is at the heart of Professor Rose’s critique. He carefully examines the ways in which Europe’s institutions represent its citizens – directly, indirectly, or not at all - and concludes that its failure in this regard remains politically dangerous, not least because people retain the power as national citizens to protest against national governments making commitments in Brussels that they are unwilling to accept