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| Guide to Abbreviations and Acronyms | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Treaties | |
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| The Treaty of Rome | |
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| The Single European Act | |
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| Maastricht | |
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| Amsterdam | |
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| Nice | |
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| The Institutions | |
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| The European Council | |
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| The Council of Ministers | |
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| The Council Presidency | |
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| COREPER (The Committee of Permanent Representatives) | |
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| Intergovernmental Conferences (IGCs) | |
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| The Commission | |
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| The European Parliament | |
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| The European Court of Justice (ECJ) | |
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| The European Court of Auditors | |
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| The Economic and Social Committee (ECOSOC) | |
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| The Committee of the Regions | |
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| How the European Union Makes Law | |
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| Different sorts of law | |
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| Unanimity v. Qualified Majority Voting (QMV) | |
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| The legislative procedures: consultation, co-operation, co-decision and assent | |
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| The budget and budgetary procedure | |
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| Monitoring expenditure | |
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| Enlargement | |
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| Background and history | |
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| Problems | |
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| Possible benefits | |
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| Criteria for membership | |
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| Paying for it | |
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| The screening process | |
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| Special cases: Turkey, Cyprus and Malta | |
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| Nice | |
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| The Common Foreign and Security Policy | |
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| Background and history | |
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| The Second Pillar | |
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| From Yugoslavia to Amsterdam | |
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| Common defence or militarisation? | |
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| How the CFSP works | |
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| Common (market) values? | |
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| Citizenship, Justice and Home Affairs | |
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| A controversial policy area | |
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| What is EU citizenship? | |
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| The Amsterdam Treaty | |
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| The Third Pillar | |
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| The Charter of Fundamental Rights | |
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| The citizen, justice and home affairs | |
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| Europol | |
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| Refugees and asylum | |
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| The Euro | |
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| Arguments for and against a single currency | |
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| The Convergence Criteria and Stability Pact | |
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| Will it work? | |
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| The Internal Market | |
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| The long arm of the Internal Market | |
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| Vital regulation or barrier to trade? | |
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| Competition policy | |
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| The Single European Act | |
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| Widows, orphans and jobs (does the internal market mean a 'race to the bottom' in social and environmental policy?) | |
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| The four freedoms (goods, services, capital and labour), some freer than others | |
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| Capital | |
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| Private good, public bad (how the EU undermines public ownership) | |
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| Mixed blessings of a big market | |
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| Consumer protection | |
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| External Economic Relations | |
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| Imports | |
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| Exports | |
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| Globalisation | |
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| Development | |
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| Employment and Social Policy | |
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| Background and history | |
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| The question of competence | |
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| Competing theories of what causes unemployment | |
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| Recent developments in employment policy | |
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| Health and safety at work | |
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| Informing and consulting workers | |
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| Gender equality | |
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| Disability, ageing and social exclusion | |
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| Education and training | |
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| Comett, Erasmus, Lingua, Socrates and Leonardo | |
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| The European Social Fund (ESF) | |
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| The Environment | |
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| Background and history | |
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| The Single European Act | |
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| Programmes, policies and problems | |
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| Public health | |
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| The Common Agricultural Policy and Common Fisheries Policy | |
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| The CAP: background, history and aims | |
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| How it works | |
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| Criticisms | |
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| The CFP: background, history and aims | |
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| Main elements | |
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| Multi-annual guidance programmes (MAGPs) | |
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| Recent developments | |
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| Transport | |
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| The Common Transport Policy and its limitations | |
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| Failures and their causes | |
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| Recent developments: legislation v. the voluntary approach | |
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| Trans European Networks (TENs) | |
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| Regional Policy | |
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| Background and history | |
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| The Single European Act | |
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| Agenda 2000 | |
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| The European Regional Development Fund and other structural funds | |
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| The Cohesion Fund | |
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| The Community Initiatives | |
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| Industrial Policy and Energy | |
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| Background, history and aims | |
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| Recent developments in industrial and related policies | |
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| Energy policy | |
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| Technology, research and development | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| A summary of the criticisms | |
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| Notes | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Index | |