Guide To The European Union - Hardcover

Leonard, Dick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1846681723 ISBN 13: 9781846681721

Publisher: Wiley, 2010

Synopsis

Guide to the European Union

The Final Adoption of the Treaty of Lisbon gives the 27-member European Union new momentum as it enters the second decade of the 21^st century, more that half a century since the six-member European Economic Community was established in 1957. That the countries of the euro area alone now account for a greater proportion of world exports of goods and services than the United States shows how far the EU has come and how, given strength and unity, it has the potential to provide a counterbalance between America and China.

This revised and updated edition of this much-acclaimed guide to the working of the European Union is invaluable for anyone who wants to understand how the EU developed, how it works and the challenges it faces. Included in its comprehensive coverage are:

• How the institutions and committees work both in theory and in practice
• Where the money for the EU comes from and where it goes
• Facts and figures about the bureaucracy
• The single market and what it means for business
• The effects and implications of monetary and economic union and the introduction of the euro
• How enlargement will change the EU and the political considerations that will determine which other countries join
• The implications of the Lisbon treaty
• Every sphere of EU activity from workers’ and women’s rights to fishing and farming

Now in its tenth edition, The Economist Guide to the European Union is well established as the most clear and comprehensive guide to how the EU operates. For everyone who lives and works in the EU – and for others who do business with EU countries – there is no better source of reference.

About this title

About the Author

Dick Leonard has been writing on European issues for 30 years for The Economist, the Observer, Europe magazine, European Voice and leading newspapers across the world. A former assistant editor of The Economist, he has also been a British Labour MP and is the author or part author of some 20 books, including The Pro-European Reader, which he co-edited with his son, Mark Leonard. He has recerly completed a trilogy of books about British prime ministries – A Century of Premiers: Salisbury to Blair (2005), Nineteenth Century British Premiers: Pitt to Rosebery (2008) and Eighteenth Century British Premiers: Walpole to the Younger Pitt (2010).

From the Inside Flap

This completely updated tenth edition of the much-acclaimed guide to the EU is in four parts and contains 39 chapters.

The background

The origins

Evolution

Treaties

The institutions

The Commission

The Council of Ministers

The European Council

The European Parliament

The Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions

The Court of Justice

The Court of Auditors

The European Investment Bank

Other EU bodies

The bureaucracy: facts, figures and costs

The competences

Agriculture

Aid and development

Citizens’ rights and symbolism

Competition policy

Consumers

Culture and the media

Economic and financial policy

Education

Energy

Environment

Financing the Union

Fisheries

Foreign, defence and security policy

Justice and home affairs

Regional policy

Research and new industries

Social policy

Taxation

The single market

Trade

Transport

Women’s rights

Workers’ rights

Special problems

Enlargement

The UK and the Union

The future 

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1846681723
• ISBN 13: 9781846681721
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352