'...an extremely important text both for those who are students and practitioners of EU politics and those who are just interested bystanders. Moreover, because Michael Welsh leavens the sometimes indigestible subject-matter of EU institutional affairs with personal observation and anecdote, it is also one of the clearest and most readable texts around on Europe's institutions. I thoroughly recommend it.' - Sir Leon Brittan

• Preface - Foreword by Sir Leon Brittan - The 'Ever Closer Union' - The European Commission: Government by Bureaucrat - The Council of Ministers: 'Willing Co-operation between Independent Sovereign States' - The European Parliament: the Democratic Deficit - The European Court of Justice: Legislation by Judges? - The Road to Maastricht: Turning Point or Turning Back? - The Competencies of the Union: Centralism or Subsidiarity? - Political Co-operation: The Mouse that Roared - Defence and Security: A New World Order? - Economic and Monetary Union: The Uncertain Dynamic - After Maastricht: An Uncertain Future - Index

'...an extremely important text both for those who are students and practitioners of EU politics and those who are just interested bystanders. Moreover, because Michael Welsh leavens the sometimes indigestible subject-matter of EU institutional affairs with personal observation and anecdote, it is also one of the clearest and most readable texts around on Europe's institutions. I thoroughly recommend it.' - Sir Leon Brittan

• Preface - Foreword by Sir Leon Brittan - The 'Ever Closer Union' - The European Commission: Government by Bureaucrat - The Council of Ministers: 'Willing Co-operation between Independent Sovereign States' - The European Parliament: the Democratic Deficit - The European Court of Justice: Legislation by Judges? - The Road to Maastricht: Turning Point or Turning Back? - The Competencies of the Union: Centralism or Subsidiarity? - Political Co-operation: The Mouse that Roared - Defence and Security: A New World Order? - Economic and Monetary Union: The Uncertain Dynamic - After Maastricht: An Uncertain Future - Index

'...an extremely important text both for those who are students and practitioners of EU politics and those who are just interested bystanders. Moreover, because Michael Welsh leavens the sometimes indigestible subject-matter of EU institutional affairs with personal observation and anecdote, it is also one of the clearest and most readable texts around on Europe's institutions. I thoroughly recommend it.' - Sir Leon Brittan

• Preface - Foreword by Sir Leon Brittan - The 'Ever Closer Union' - The European Commission: Government by Bureaucrat - The Council of Ministers: 'Willing Co-operation between Independent Sovereign States' - The European Parliament: the Democratic Deficit - The European Court of Justice: Legislation by Judges? - The Road to Maastricht: Turning Point or Turning Back? - The Competencies of the Union: Centralism or Subsidiarity? - Political Co-operation: The Mouse that Roared - Defence and Security: A New World Order? - Economic and Monetary Union: The Uncertain Dynamic - After Maastricht: An Uncertain Future - Index