Policies and policy processes of the European Union

Contents:

1. The Policy Portfolio
2. Understanding the Policy Portfolio
3. The Principal Policy Institutions
4. Other Important Policy Actors
5. Key Features of Policy Processes
6. The Policy Cycle
7. Policy-Making Modes
8. The Internal Market
9. Building a Socio-Economic Union: Agriculture, Cohesion, Environment, and Growth Policies
10. Economic and Monetary Union
11. The Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
12. Trade Policy
13. Foreign and External Security Policy
14. The Budget
15. Achievements, Challenges and Prospects
This major new text on EU policy-making provides a concise but systematic introduction to the main policy areas in which the EU is active and the way in which EU policy is made, explaining how and why the EU's policy portfolio has developed as it has and the distinctive characteristics of each broad policy area.