William Wallace

Jean Monnet Professor of Contemporary European Studies and Co-Director Helen Wallace

Helen S. Wallace

Professor of International Relations William Wallace

The new and expanded edition of Helen Wallace and William Wallace's highly successful textbook on policy-making in the European Union has been fully updated to take into account all of the most important recent developments in EU affairs. Major developments examined include the move to a single European currency, the expansion of common activties in justice and home affairs, recent initiatives to strenghthen common foreign and security policy, negotiations on eastern enlargement,and efforts to reform the common agricultural policy. Even more comprehensive than its predecessor, this new edition includes fifteen detailed case studies of policy-making in different areas, each written by an expert in the field, together with introductory chapters on EU institutions, policyprocess, and theoretical approaches. The book forms the first volume in a major new series of EU politics textbooks under the general editorship of John Peterson and Helen Wallace, entitled The New European Union Series.

Policy-making in the European Union

Reshaping the EC/EFTA Relationship

The Wider Western Europe

Jean Marie Palayret

The empty chair crisis of 1965, resolved in the Luxembourg Compromise of 1966, forms part of the dramatic past of the European Union, and is for many a turning-point in European political integration. This volume, based on new research, revisits these events. It sheds fresh light on the mixed motives of the principal member states, European institutions and third-country actors, and identifies the shadows cast over subsequent legal and political practice. The book results from a collaborative project among historians, lawyers, and political scientists. It draws on new archival material and on many insights from practitioners, both some involved in the events of 1965-66 and others engaged in subsequent negotiations in the Council of the EU. Traces of these events persist in the consensus-oriented culture in the Council, where a concern to avoid sharply polarised confrontation limits recourse to active voting, even though the formal use of qualified majority voting has been greatly extended. Arguments over agricultural policy, the EU budget and world trade negotiations thus continue to provide occasions for some member states to insist on their 'very important interests'. This book stems from a co-funded project of the Fondation Paul-Henri Spaak in Brussels and of the European University Institute and the Historical Archives of the European Union in Florence.

The Empty Chair Crisis and the Luxembourg Compromise Forty Years on

Visions, Votes, and Vetoes

Helen S. Wallace

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