Guide to the European Union

0010/E10th revised edition.

Leonard, Dick 저자(글)

Profile Books(GB) · 2010년 05월 03일

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This is the most comprehensive guide to how the EU operates. This edition brings you up to date at a crucial stage in its development following enlargement and the decision to adopt a formal constitution.
Dick Leonard is Senior Adviser to the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels. A former MP for Romford, he was an assistant editor of The Economist and later Brussels correspondent for both The Economist and the Observer. He is the author or co-author of twelve books and also acts as a consultant on European affairs.
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).
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
From its original six members (who formed the European Economic Community in 1957) what became the European Union had grown to 27 members in 2007, with several more candidates for membership standing in the wings. This long-established definitive guide to the workings of the EU provides comprehensive coverage ofHow it works: the institutions, the mechanismsEvery area of EU competence from agriculture to workers?rightsThe effects of the single market and the single currency and the successes and stresses of the euro zoneThe implications of the Lisbon treaty The impact of the enlargement of the EU and the prospects for further enlargement and for closer political integration The Guide to the European Union is well-established as the clearest and most comprehensive guide to how the EU operates. This new edition brings you up to date at a crucial stage in its development following parliamentary elections and a new Commission taking over in 2009.following parliamentary elections and a new Commission taking over in 2009.
From its original six members (who formed the European Economic Community in 1957) what became the European Union had grown to 27 members in 2007, with several more candidates for membership standing in the wings. This long-established definitive guide to the workings of the EU provides comprehensive coverage of How it works: the institutions, the mechanisms Every area of EU competence from agriculture to workers' rights The effects of the single market and the single currency The implications of a European Union constitution The impact of the enlargement of the EU to include eastern European countries and Cyprus and Malta The prospects for further enlargement and for closer political integration and further harmonisation of currently sovereign matters such as taxation. The Guide to the European Union is well-established as the clearest and most comprehensive guide to how the EU operates. This new edition brings you up to date at a crucial stage in its development following parliamentary elections and a new Commission taking over in 2009.
From its original six members (who formed the European Economic Community in 1957) what became the European Union had grown to 27 members in 2007, with several more candidates for membership standing in the wings. This long-established definitive guide to the workings of the EU provides comprehensive coverage ofHow it works: the institutions, the mechanismsEvery area of EU competence from agriculture to workers?rightsThe effects of the single market and the single currencyThe implications of a European Union constitutionThe impact of the enlargement of the EU to include eastern European countries and Cyprus and MaltaThe prospects for further enlargement and for closer political integration and further harmonisation of currently sovereign matters such as taxation. The Guide to the European Union is well-established as the clearest and most comprehensive guide to how the EU operates. This new edition brings you up to date at a crucial stage in its development following parliamentary elections and a new Commission taking over in 2009.
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 21st 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.
The tenth edition of the long-established definitive guide to the EU
From its original six members (who formed the European Economic Community in 1957) what became the European Union had grown to 27 members in 2007, with several more candidates for membership standing in the wings. This long-established definitive guide to the workings of the EU provides comprehensive coverage of How it works: the institutions, the mechanisms; Every area of EU competence from agriculture to workersrs" rights; The effects of the single market and the single currency and the successes and stresses of the euro zone; The implications of the Lisbon treaty; The impact of the enlargement of the EU and the prospects for further enlargement and for closer political integration.The Guide to the European Unionis well-established as the clearest and most comprehensive guide to how the EU operates. This new edition brings you up to date at a crucial stage in its development following parliamentary elections and a new Commission taking over in 2009 and the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty.
This book is well established as the clearest and most comprehensive guide to how the EU operates. This new edition brings the reader up to date at a crucial stage in its development following parlimentary elections and a with a new commission taking over this year.
This book is well established as the clearest and most comprehensive guide to how the EU operates. This new edition brings the reader up to date at a crucial stage in its development following parlimentary elections and with a new commission taking over this year.

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저자(글) Leonard, Dick

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ISBN	9781846681721 ( 1846681723 )
발행(출시)일자	2010년 05월 03일
쪽수	342쪽
크기	147 * 219 * 32 mm / 535 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어