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Britain in the European Union: Law, Policy and Parliament »

Authors: Philip Giddings (Editor), Gavin Drewry
ISBN-13: 9781403904515, ISBN-10: 1403904510
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date Published: June 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Philip Giddings

Philip Giddings is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Reading.

Book Synopsis

Written by the same team that produced Westminster and Europe [1996], this book reports and analyzes the major developments in the relationship between Britain and the European Union between the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty and the British General Election of 2001. Britain in the European Union focuses particularly on the EU's impact on parliamentary institutions in the UK and on law and policy in such controversial areas as employment and the social chapter, foreign and security policy, enlargement and governance, immigration and asylum and the single currency.

1	Introduction	1
2	Britain in Europe : community to union, 1973-2001	12
3	Balancing supremacy : EU membership and the Constitution	37
4	Parliamentary scrutiny of policy and legislation : the procedures of the Lords and Commons	60
5	Governance, institutional reform and enlargement	97
6	Employment law and the social chapter	121
7	Westminster, EMU, and the Euro	145
8	Second pillar challenges : foreign, security and defence policies	175
9	Immigration and asylum : law and policy in action	199
10	Devolution, Westminster and the EU	218
11	Finding the way forward	240