About this Book

1: John Peterson and Michael Shackleton: The EU's Institutions: an Overview 2: Renaud Dehousse and Paul Magnette: Institutional Change in the EU I. Providing Direction 3: Philippe de Schoutheete: The European Council 4: Fiona Hayes-Renshaw: The Council of Ministers 5: John Peterson: The College of Commissioners 6: Michael Shackleton: The European Parliament 7: Niamh Nic Shuibhne: The European Court of Justice II. Managing the Union 8: Liesbet Hooghe and Hussein Kassim: The Commission's Services 9: Dermot Hodson: Managing the Euro - the European Central Bank 10: Daniel Keleman and Giandomenico Majone: Managing Europeanization - The European Agencies 11: George Karakatsanis and Brigid Laffan: Financial Control - the Court of Auditors and OLAF III. Integrating Interests 12: Andrew Geddes: Security Interests - Police and Judicial Cooperation 13: John Peterson, Andrew Byrne and Niklas Helwig: International Interests - the Common Foreign and Security Policy 14: Jeffrey Lewis: National Interests - COREPER 15: Tapio Raunio: Policy Interests - the European Parliament's Party Groups 16: Carolyn Rowe and Charlie Jeffery: Social and Regional Interests - ECOSOC and Committee of the Regions 17: John Peterson and Michael Shackleton: Conclusion.