2nd Edition
The Routledge Guide to the European Union
Foreword by Lord Kerr of Kinlochard
Preface to the 2nd edition by Dick Leonard
Introduction
Part 1: The background
1. The origins
2. Evolution, 1958-2008
3. Growing pains, growing strains, 2008-2014
4. The years of permacrisis, 2015-
Part 2: The treaties, the institutions, how the EU is financed and how decisions are taken
5. The treaties
6. The European Commission
7. The European External Action Service
8. The Council of the European Union
9. The European Council
10. The European Parliament
11. The European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions
12. The Court of Justice of the European Union
13. The European Court of Auditors
14. The European Central Bank
15. The European Investment Bank
16. Other EU agencies and bodies
17. Staffing the EU: Facts, figures and costs
18. Financing the EU – How it’s paid for and what it pays for
19. Decision-making procedures in the EU
Part 3: The competences
20. The customs union and trade
21. The internal or single market
22. Research and innovation
23. Competition policy
24. Industrial policy
25. Economic and monetary policy
26. Taxation
27. Agriculture
28. Fisheries
29. Regional policy and cohesion
30. Workers’ rights, employment and social policy
31. Energy and climate change
32. The environment
33. Transport
34. Justice and home affairs – The area of freedom, security and justice
35. Fundamental rights
36. Gender equality
37. Education
38. Culture and media
39. Citizenship and symbols
40. Consumer protection
41. Health
42. Development co-operation and humanitarian assistance
43. Neighbourhood policy
44. Foreign, security and defence policy
45. Defence industry and space
Part 4: Challenges ahead
46. Enlargement
47. "Ever closer union"
48. The rule of law
49. Migration and demography
50. The EU’s place in the world
Biography
Ian Bond is the Deputy Director of the Centre for European Reform (CER) and was previously a member of the British diplomatic service.
Dick Leonard was a journalist, author and former Labour MP.
Robert Taylor was a journalist and foreign correspondent, covering the European Union for more than 30 years.
“This second edition of the Routledge Guide to the European Union should be on the bookshelves of politicians, officials, students and anyone else who wants to know more about the history, the structures and the competences of the European Union.”
Lord Kerr of Kinlochard GCMG, former Secretary General of the Convention on the Future of the European Union, and former British Permanent Representative to the European Union
“This book is beautifully written, wonderfully concise and extremely accurate. It is also fair-minded and objective. It tells the reader everything that matters in how the EU works.”
Charles Grant CMG, Director of the influential think-tank, the Centre for European Reform (CER)
