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The Council of Ministers provides a comprehensive analysis of the
Council of Ministers: how it works, its varied activities,
functions, and its relationships with the other key EU institutions
and the member states. It is a key legislative institution which
lies at the fulcrum of decision-making in the European Union.
From agriculture to security, the policies of the European Union
have wide-reaching consequences for the EU's member states and
citizens, and for the wider world. Policy-Making in the European
Union begins with an overview of EU policy-making as a whole,
defining the processes and institutions involved, and introducing
the analytical approaches that are necessary for understanding
them. A wide range of policy areas are then explored in detail,
including the single market, environmental policy, migration, and
foreign policy. The eighth edition recognises the expansion of the
EU's policy agenda, exploring how the EU's digital policy has
evolved in an increasingly digital society. It also considers the
effects of key international developments, including the impact of
Brexit on EU policies, and the EU's actions regarding climate
change, following the 2015 Paris Climate Accord and the United
States' subsequent withdrawal. Exploring the link between the modes
and mechanisms of EU policy-making and its implementation at
national level, Policy-Making in the European Union helps students
to engage with the key issues related to policy. Written by
experts, for students and scholars alike, this is the most
authoritative and in-depth guide to policy-making in the European
Union.
Europe's transformations is the unifying theme for this collective
work that brings together leading academics and policy makers from
across Europe and beyond. When the geopolitical tectonic plates are
shifting, the sustainability of the Western economic model is under
serious challenge and internal divisions in Europe are deep, we aim
at looking at the major issues in a 'big picture' perspective. We
draw lessons from the way Europe has responded or not to changes
both within and without in multiple crises in recent years, try to
understand what is at stake and consider alternative policy
proposals. All the contributors have a long and widely recognized
knowledge and experience of a wide range of issues of European
integration and Europe's role in the world. They cross academic and
professional boundaries and bring different perspectives as top
analysts and policy makers, including two former prime ministers
and a former US ambassador to the EU. They come together as
friends, colleagues, and former students of Loukas Tsoukalis
celebrating his scholarship and overall contribution to the
European public sphere. The volume is divided into three main
parts. The first deals with issues of democracy and welfare. The
second part deals with major changes in the European balance of
power and the balance between institutions. The third part examines
changes in the global system and Europe's present and potential
role in it.
Over the past decade European economic integration has seen
considerable institutional success, but the economic performance of
the EU has been varied. While macroeconomic stability has improved
and an emphasis on cohesion preserved, the EU economic system has
not delivered satisfactory growth performance. This book is the
report of a high-level group commissioned by the President of the
European Commission to review the EU economic system and propose a
blueprint for an economic system capable of delivering faster
growth along with stability and cohesion. It assesses the EU s
economic performance, examines the challenges facing the EU in the
coming years, and presents a series of recommendations. The report
views Europe's unsatisfactory growth performance during the last
decades as a symptom of its failure to transform into an
innovation-based economy. It has now become clear that the context
in which economic policies have been developed has changed
fundamentally over the past thirty years. A system built around the
assimilation of existing technologies, mass production generating
economics of scale, and an industrial structure dominated by large
firms with stable markets and long term employment patterns no
longer delivers in the world of today, characterized by economic
globalization and strong external competition. What is needed now
is more opportunity for new entrants, greater mobility of employees
within and across firms, more retraining, greater reliance on
market financing, and higher investment in both R&D and higher
education. This requires a massive and urgent change in economic
policies in Europe.
Who really participates in the European policy process? Do
organized outsiders have a clear advantage in gaining access to
decision-making? If so, with what consequences? This study, based
on a range of case studies of regulatory and industrial policies by
a multinational team of authors, argues that the European policy
process provides access points for a wide variety of interests -
firms, national trade associations, European sectoral and peak
associations, clubs of big business, and 'civic' interests -
alongside the battalions of officials from the member states. The
interplay between these organized interests, the member
governments, and the European institutions, fostered partly by the
Commission in its roles of policy initiator and arbitrator, but
anticipated also in the bargaining process of the Council of
Ministers, produces some policy outcomes that are different from
those in national settings. In particular, the case for
liberalization and privatization is often strengthened. The
emerging patterns of European governance are thus starting to
change the characteristics of the European political economy.
Over the past decade European economic integration has seen
considerable institutional success, but the economic performance of
the EU has been varied. While macroeconomic stability has improved
and an emphasis on cohesion preserved, the EU economic system has
not delivered satisfactory growth performance.
This book is the report of a high-level group commissioned by the
President of the European Commission to review the EU economic
system and propose a blueprint for an economic system capable of
delivering faster growth along with stability and cohesion. It
assesses the EU s economic performance, examines the challenges
facing the EU in the coming years, and presents a series of
recommendations.
The report views Europe's unsatisfactory growth performance during
the last decades as a symptom of its failure to transform into an
innovation-based economy. It has now become clear that the context
in which economic policies have been developed has changed
fundamentally over the past thirty years. A system built around the
assimilation of existing technologies, mass production generating
economics of scale, and an industrial structure dominated by large
firms with stable markets and long term employment patterns no
longer delivers in the world of today, characterized by economic
globalization and strong external competition. What is needed now
is more opportunity for new entrants, greater mobility of employees
within and across firms, more retraining, greater reliance on
market financing, and higher investment in both R&D and higher
education. This requires a massive and urgent change in economic
policies in Europe.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
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