The Council of Ministers

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.>

List of contents

Introduction
PART 1: WHO DOES WHAT?
National Representatives Decide: The Ministers in Council
Officials Prepare the Ground: The Preparatory Bodies
Bureaucrats Organise and Advise:
The Council Secretariat
Taking Turns at the Wheel: The Presidency
PART II: WITH WHOM?
Overlapping Competences: The Council and the European Council
Competition and Cooperation: The Council and the Commission
An Evolving Partnership: The Council and the European Parliament
Not Just Governments: The Council and the Member States
PART III: HOW?
Less Often than Expected: Voting in the Council
Compromise and Consensus: Negotiation and Bargaining in the Council
Conclusions.

About the author

FIONA HAYES-RENSHAW is Visiting Professor, College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium.

Product details

• Authors: Fiona Hayes-Renshaw, Fiona Wallace Hayes-Renshaw, Helen Wallace
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.04.2006
• EAN: 9780333948651
• ISBN: 978-0-333-94865-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: The European Union Series; European Union (Paperback Adul; The European Union Series; European Union; European Union (Paperback Adul
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; B, European Politics, European Union, Political Science and International Studies, EU (European Union), European Union Politics