Britain in the European Union: Law, Policy and Parliament

✍ Scribed by Philip Giddings, Gavin Drewry

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 290
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Written by the same team that produced Westminster and Europe [1996], this book reports and analyzes the major developments in the relationship between Britain and the European Union between the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty and the British General Election of 2001. Britain in the European Union focuses particularly on the EU's impact on parliamentary institutions in the UK and on law and policy in such controversial areas as employment and the social chapter, foreign and security policy, enlargement and governance, immigration and asylum and the single currency.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Notes on Contributors......Page 11
1 Introduction......Page 14
2 Britain in Europe: Community to Union, 1973–2001......Page 25
3 Balancing Supremacy: EU Membership and the Constitution......Page 50
4 Parliamentary Scrutiny of Policy and Legislation: The Procedures of the Lords and Commons......Page 73
5 Governance, Institutional Reform and Enlargement......Page 110
6 Employment Law and the Social Chapter......Page 134
7 Westminster, EMU, and the Euro......Page 158
8 Second Pillar Challenges: Foreign, Security and Defence Policies......Page 188
9 Immigration and Asylum: Law and Policy in Action......Page 212
10 Devolution, Westminster and the EU......Page 231
11 Finding the Way Forward......Page 253
Appendix A: Chronology of/Key Events......Page 269
Appendix B: Web links......Page 273
Select Bibliography: Books, Chapters and Articles Cited......Page 277
C......Page 281
D......Page 282
E......Page 283
H......Page 285
L......Page 286
P......Page 287
S......Page 288
T......Page 289
Y......Page 290