Chapter 6 THE EUROPEAN POLITICAL SYSTEM
• • • • • History of European Integration The European Union in British politics Britain in the European Union The European Union as a legal creation The ‘Europeanization’ of British politics
History of European Integration
• World war and its aftermath • From the Treaty of Paris to the Treaty of Rome • Transformation of the EEC in the 1980s
The European Union in British politics
• Formal and informal sources of EU power in Britain • The European Union in the core executive • The European Union in the wider political system
Britain in the European Union
• • • • • Britain in the European Commission Britain in the Council of Ministers Britain in the European Parliament Britain in Brussels Britain in the EU lobbying system
The European Union as a legal creation
• Treaty making in the European Union • The European Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance • The impact of court decisions
The ‘Europeanization’ of British politics
• • • • The meaning of Europeanization Economic Europeanization Europeanization of government Europeanization of the wider political system