Understanding EU policy making /
Chari, Raj S.
Kritzinger, Sylvia.
London ; Ann Arbor, MI : Pluto Press,
2006.
The EU has an increasingly significant role in the everyday life of Europe's citizens. This is a direct consequence of the growth and integration of the EU over the last 25 years. What are these policies about? Who is shaping them? These are the questions that this book answers.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A supranational or a decentralized EU? -- Who's coming to play? Policy-making actors in the EU -- Understanding EU policy making: major theories and new insights -- Single arket policy: creating a strong neo-liberal market in the global economy -- Competition policy: ensuring a competitive European market -- Economic and Monetary Union: the making of the money tree -- The Common Agricultural Policy: redistributive policy in favour of whom? -- Social policy: demonstrating European incapability and differences -- Policies of freedom, security and justice: a limited role for the EU -- External policies: divided we stand, united we fall -- Conclusions: understsanding the present, changing the future.
The EU has an increasingly significant role in the everyday life of Europe's citizens. This is a direct consequence of the growth and integration of the EU over the last 25 years. What are these policies about? Who is shaping them? These are the questions that this book answers.
European Union.
Understanding EU policy making.