What does "back home" mean in this passage?
But it does mean that EU deals--over the constitution, for instance--that seem necessary and inevitable to professional politicians often fails to convince the voters back home. If those deals keep on being made, regardless of what the folks back home think, the EU will loose its democratic legitimacy.

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What does "back home" mean in this passage?
But it does mean that EU deals--over the constitution, for instance--that seem necessary and inevitable to professional politicians often fails to convince the voters back home. If those deals keep  on being made, regardless of what the folks back home think, the EU will loose its democratic legitimacy.

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"back home" is referring to the home country of the politicians. The politicians are representing the "voters back home" or "voters in their home country"

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'Back home' in this context refers to the home country (of origin) of each person governed by the EU.  By the way, the verb, 'fail' should not have an 's' because the subject is 'deals´.

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