About the Book

European Union: Power and Policy-making continues to provide advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students with a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the European Union. The primary goal of the textbook is to advance understanding of the European integration process in terms of the EU as a maturing and ongoing policy system.

Written by a distinguished group of internationally recognised researchers, this new edition has been significantly revised to reflect the important changes that have taken place in the EU in recent years and the very latest scholarly thinking. The third edition addresses all the core components of courses on the EU such as the history of the EU, the main theoretical approaches, the role of key institutions in the policy-making process and the implications of enlargement.

The third edition has been updated throughout and includes brand new chapters on:

• theories of European integration
• Europeanization of public policy
• the EU budgetary procedure
• the process of enlargement
• European macroeconomic governance
• implementation of EU public policy
• judicial law-making
• the European and national parliaments