Britain in the European Union

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.

Author Biography

Philip Giddings is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Reading and has edited and contributed a number of books for the Study of Parliament Group, including Westminster and Europe and Parliamentary Accountability. Gavin Drewry is Professor of Public Administration and Director of the Centre for Political Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is also an honorary professor in the Faculty of Laws at UCL, and is a former Chair of the Study of Parliament Group. He has written extensively on parliament, public administration and public law. He is currently directing a major research project on the operation of the UK Court of Appeal, funded by the Nuffield Foundation.