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This book explains the state of the art in the European Parliament. It considers the future options available to the Parliament and the kinds of reform that it is likely to seek, and examines the historical evolution of the Groups within the Parliament.

Richard Corbett is the advisor on constitutional questions to the President of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy. He handles the President's relations with the European Parliament. From 1996 to 2009 he was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP). He was spokesperson on constitutional affairs and EU reform for the Socialist Group and rapporteur on the European Constitution and the treaty of Lisbon, as well as on several revisions of Parliament's Rules of Procedure. Francis Jacobs is Head of the European Parliament's Information Office in Dublin. Before that he had worked as an official for several of the Parliament's committees, most recently as the Head of Unit responsible for the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection. Michael Shackleton is Head of the European Parliament Information Office in the United Kingdom. Before this he had most recently been responsible for the setting up of europarltv, the Parliament's webTV channel, launched in September 2008, and prior to that been the Head of Unit responsible for concilA--iations and codecision.