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The peculiar emptiness that reading the White Paper communicates is neither accidental nor the result of a blunder which could have been avoided by its authors. However, this attempt by the Commission to pursue a political programme without taking leave of a technocratic or neo-functionalistic self-understanding was inevitably destined to fail. In this way, the White Paper's descriptional value limits itself to the documentation of the Commission's identity crisis. However, a political theory of European integration has not yet resulted from this crisis.