Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Analyses the likely future of the EU following next year's Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) which is likely to be even more significant for the future of Europe than the Maastricht Treaty. Since Maastricht it has become clear that future developments are less certain with regard to the EU and integration. The IGC will have to try and resolve tensions such as: widening Europe to include former communist countries whislt also trying to deepen Europe with increased political and economic integration; providing a framework which is acceptable to a core of countries (Benelux, Germany, France) who favour more integration and an early move to monetary union with countries such as the UK, which does not.
Synopsis
This is the first scholarly look at the likely future of the EU after next year's Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) which will probably be more important to the future of Europe than was the Maastricht Treaty. Since Maastricht it has become clear that the future developments are less certain with regard to the EU and integration. The IGC will try and resolve tensions such as "widening", Europe to include former communist countries while also trying to "deepen" Europe with increased political and economic integration; providing a framework which is acceptable to those countries who favor more integration and an early move to monetary union. Reforming the European Union provides comprehensive coverage of these key issues and adopts an interdisciplinary approach, combining political science, economics and law.
Table of Contents
Introduction : the Amsterdam Treatv and reform of the European Union / Philip Lynch, Nanette A. Neuwahl and G. Wyn Rees -- Part I. Institutional reform. The Council / Martin Westlake -- The European Commission / David Spence -- The European Parliament / Francis Jacobs -- The European Court of Justice / Takis Tridimas -- Part II. Policy developments. European monetary union : one money, one Europe? / Nigel M. Healey -- The paradox of the social dimension / Jeff Kenner -- The regions and Amsterdam : whatever happened to the third level? / Charlie Jeffery -- An 'area of freedom, justice and security'? Progress and deficits in justice and home affairs / Jèorg Monar -- Common Foreign and Security Policy and defence : a lost opportunity? / G. Wyn Rees -- Part III. The Union and its citizens. The place of the citizen in the European construction / Nanette A. Neuwahl -- Flexibility and closer cooperation : evolution or entropy? / Philip Lynch -- Defining a constitution for the European Union / Robin C. A. White -- Conclusions : Maastricht, Amsterdam and beyond / Philip Lynch, Nanette A. Neuwahl and C. Wyn Rees.