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The European Parliament's Role in Closer EU Integration

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  • © 1998

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  1. Richard Corbett
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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Theoretical Approaches to European Integration

    • Richard Corbett
    Pages 1-45

  3. What to Expect of the European Parliament

    • Richard Corbett
    Pages 46-65

  4. A New Political Network

    • Richard Corbett
    Pages 66-91

  5. Exploiting its Existing Powers

    • Richard Corbett
    Pages 92-130

  6. Reform within the Treaties

    • Richard Corbett
    Pages 131-141

  7. Parliament Turns to Treaty Revision1

    • Richard Corbett
    Pages 142-160

  8. The Draft Treaty

    • Richard Corbett
    Pages 161-172

  9. From the Draft Treaty to the 1985 Intergovernmental Conference

    • Richard Corbett
    Pages 173-217

  10. The Intergovernmental Conference of 1985

    • Richard Corbett
    Pages 218-253

  11. Making the Most of the Single European Act

    • Richard Corbett
    Pages 254-275

  12. Relaunching the Ship

    • Richard Corbett
    Pages 276-307

  13. The IGCs on Economic and Monetary Union and on Political Union

    • Richard Corbett
    Pages 308-342

  14. Making the Most of Maastricht

    • Richard Corbett
    Pages 343-360

  15. Overall Conclusions

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    Pages 361-368

  16. Postscript: The Treaty of Amsterdam

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    Pages 369-377

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 378-424
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About this book

Nearly 20 years after it first became an elected institution, it is time to assess the impact of the European Parliament on the process of European integration. This book does so, beginning with an analysis of what integration theorists expected of the directly elected Parliament when such an idea was still on the drawing board and then examining what the Parliament has achieved in practice. It concludes that the Parliament has been extremely significant, though not always in the ways initially expected.

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'A fascinating insight into the impact of the Parliament on the process of European integration. I can think of no better person to have written this book than the author who has been involved in the Parliament's work on these issues for many years. Anyone interested in the process of European integration will find it most interesting.' - Klaus Hänsch, former President of the European Parliament

'The reader owes a debt of gratitude to the author's diligence...Throughout this work Richard Corbett seeks to enlighten and illuminate the reader's path rather than obfuscate...legislators and observers could benefit from studying processes and conclusions set out in this excellent work.' - Diana E. Maxwell, European Business Review

'Richard Corbett is in a different class...[A] tome...constructed of such highly readable prose that were it a novel the promoters would say it was impossible to put down...[S]ets out the many theoretical factions with such clarity and skill that the reader is caught up in the pace of the narrative...[T]he book is a masterpiece.' - Christ White, The Parliament Magazine, The European Parliament

About the author

RICHARD CORBETT is a Member of the European Parliament and former Deputy Secretary General of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament.

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