The Euro-Lobbyists

This book explains in detail how the main European institutions function, how policies are formulated - and how a wide ranging process of formal and informal consultation enables the views of industrialists, consumers, professions and special interest to be represented at every stage. The book traces the progress of a draft proposal from within the Commission as it moves for consideration and amendment by working groups of the European parliament and the Economic and Social Committee, before reaching the Council of Ministers, and passing into European Law. The book explains how under the New Cooperation Procedure more power has been granted to the European Parliament, now an increasingly important target for European lobbying.