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This implies that there must be minimum standards for key economic policies and incentives for continued structural reform. The fourth pillar is a political union that can engage euro area citizens more deeply and make the other pillars legitimate. This is essential to ensure that where sovereignty in selected policy fields is pooled, democratic participation is deepened in parallel.