Eu enlargement, the clash of capitalisms and the european social dimension

At the heart of the European integration process is the political economy debate over whether the EU should be a market-making project, or if it should combine this with integration in employment and social policy. What has been the impact of the 2004 and 2007 ...

The power of the centre

Central governments and the macro-implementation of EU public policy

This book examines a hitherto under-researched aspect of the European Union's policy process - the extent and the nature of the involvement of central governments in the implementation of EU public policy. It discusses how the co-ordination of these institutions affects their capacity to shape ...

The agency phenomenon in the European Union

emergence, institutionalisation and everyday decision-making

This volume offers a comprehensive analysis of the agency phenomenon in the European Union. It takes stock of the emergence and development of EU agencies, providing insight into the characteristics as well as the consequences of the ongoing EU agencification process. The volume traces the ...

Inmigration and european integration

beyond fortress Europe?

Migration is at the heart of the contemporary European Union. This new edition addresses three key questions that underpin EU responses to migration policy. First, what role does the EU play in the regulation of migration? Second, how and why have EU measures developed to ...

Regulatory quality in Europe

concepts, measures and policy processes

The European Union and its member states are investing in ambitious programmes for # better regulation# and targets of regulatory quality. This book lifts the veil of excessively optimistic propositions covering the whole better regulation agenda. It provides an innovative conceptual framework to handle the political ...

The Euroepan Union and culture

between economic regulation and european cultural policy

"The European Union and Culture" explains how and why the European Union has started to intervene in the cultural policy sector - understood here as the public policies aimed at supporting and regulating the arts and cultural industries. It is the first comprehensive and theoretically informed ...

EU pharmaceutical regulation

the politics of policy-making

This book provides an analysis of European Union pharmaceutical regulation from a policy-making perspective. It focuses on how the conflicting agendas of the pharmaceutical industry, EU member states, and consumer interests are reconciled within the context of serving public health needs within the single market ...

The Eurogroup

how a secretive circle of finance ministers shape european econommic governance

This is the first study on the work of the Eurogroup - the monthly informal meetings of the euro area's finance ministers, the Commission, and the European Central Bank. It: explains how the particular working method applied by the Eurogroup impacts on the conduct and ...

The European Union and the regulation of media market

National broadcasting and press regulation is undergoing a process of convergence in Europe. This book explains how this process has been shaped by the actions of the European Union (EU) institutions. Alison Harcourt observes that whilst communications is one of the EU?s most successful ...

Globalisation and EU policy-making

the neo-liberal transformation of telecommunications and electricity

Assesses and contrasts the roles of globalisation, institutions and ideas on policy-making in the EU Views the creation of liberalised European single markets in the telecommunications and electricity supply sectors out of national monopolies as an example of the dramatic transformation of economic organisation across ...

Fifteen into one?

the European Union and its member states