Understanding European Union Institutions

✍ Scribed by Alex Warleigh

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 217
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Understanding the institutions of the European Union is vital to understanding how it functions. This book provides students with a user-friendly introduction to the main institutions, and explains their different roles in the functioning and development of the European Union.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
LISTS OF ILLUSTRATIONS......Page 13
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS......Page 14
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 15
HOW DOES THE EU WORK?......Page 16
Introduction: institutions, institutionalism and decision making in the EU......Page 18
THE POLICY-MAKING INSTITUTIONS......Page 38
The Council of Ministers and the European Council......Page 40
The European Commission......Page 56
The European Parliament......Page 76
The European Central Bank......Page 96
'POLICING THE SYSTEM': THE OVERSIGHT INSTITUTIONS......Page 116
The European Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance......Page 118
The Court of Auditors......Page 138
The Europexan Union Ombudsman......Page 154
THE ADVISORY BODIES......Page 176
The Economic and Social Committee......Page 178
The Committee of the Regions......Page 192
APPENDIX Political Representation in the EU......Page 206
INDEX......Page 210