The Routledge Guide to the European Union

2. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-138-54247-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 632 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 1330 g

Written by experts, this long-established and definitive guide to the workings of the European Union provides comprehensive, straightforward and readable coverage of this sometimes misunderstood and complex institution.

This fully revised second edition explains not only what happens but why, analysing the EU’s strengths and weaknesses, as well as opportunities for it to be more effective. With the EU’s very existence under pressure due to Euroscepticism, continued crises with migration and borders, the re-emergence of the far right, and renewed great power competition in Europe and the world, it specifically outlines:

- How the EU has evolved over the last 70 years

- How it works: the institutions, the mechanisms

- Every area of EU competence from agriculture to defence

- The effects of the single market, a single currency and the successes and stresses of the eurozone

- The impact of the enlargement of the EU, prospects for further enlargement and closer political integration

- Reforming the EU’s decision-making and defending the rule of law

- The EU’s place in an ever more disorderly world

The Routledge 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 history, at a time when it has never been under greater internal and external threat, but conversely is perhaps more important than ever.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bond, Ian

Leonard, Dick

Taylor, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.