- Preface and Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- List of Boxes
- List of Tables
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- List of Contributors
- New to this Edition
- Map
- Guided Tour of the Textbook Features
- Guided Tour of the Online Resource Centre
- Part I Background
- 1. Introduction
- 2. How Did We Get Here?
- Part II Major Actors
- 3. The EU’s Institutions
- 4. Member States
- Part III Policies and Policy-Making
- 5. Key Policies
- 6. How Policies Are Made
- 7. Democracy in the European Union
- Part IV The EU and the Wider World
- 8. EU Expansion and Wider Europe
- 9. The EU as a Security Actor
- 10. The EU as a Global Actor
- 11. Conclusion
- Appendix: Chronology of European Integration*
- Appendix 2 Supplement including coverage of Brexit
- Glossary
- References
- Index
(p. 118) 6. How Policies Are Made
- Chapter:
- (p. 118) 6. How Policies Are Made
- Author(s):
Fiona Hayes-Renshaw
- DOI:
- 10.1093/hepl/9780199685370.003.0006
This chapter examines how European Union policies are made. Most EU legislation is now adopted according to the Ordinary Legislative Procedure, under which the Council and the European Parliament have equal powers. The basic policy-making rules laid down in the Treaties have been supplemented over the years by formal agreements and informal understandings between the main actors in the decision-making institutions. EU policy-making is open to criticism on grounds of democracy, transparency, and efficiency, but it continues to deliver an impressive amount and array of policy outcomes. The chapter considers the basic rules and principal actors involved in EU policy-making and how the policy-making process works in practice. It also asks whether the EU policy-making process is democratic, transparent, and efficient before concluding with an assessment of the theory and practice underlying the process.
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- Preface and Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- List of Boxes
- List of Tables
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- List of Contributors
- New to this Edition
- Map
- Guided Tour of the Textbook Features
- Guided Tour of the Online Resource Centre
- Part I Background
- 1. Introduction
- 2. How Did We Get Here?
- Part II Major Actors
- 3. The EU’s Institutions
- 4. Member States
- Part III Policies and Policy-Making
- 5. Key Policies
- 6. How Policies Are Made
- 7. Democracy in the European Union
- Part IV The EU and the Wider World
- 8. EU Expansion and Wider Europe
- 9. The EU as a Security Actor
- 10. The EU as a Global Actor
- 11. Conclusion
- Appendix: Chronology of European Integration*
- Appendix 2 Supplement including coverage of Brexit
- Glossary
- References
- Index
