“…Partly because of the dominance of functionalist accounts centred on federal and intergovernmental approaches to the EU, Europeanisation is often characterised as opaque, a binary distinction juxtaposing member-state and EU identities, denying the reality that political élites working within the EU continually shift within and between 'national', 'EU', 'organisational' and 'individual' agendas and objectives depending on their decision-making context (Clark and Jones, 1999;Jones and Clark, 2001). Most clearly, personnel in the EU institutions, including the European Commission and European Parliament, are drawn from the EU's 27 member-states and are obliged to hold multiple identities.…”