One of the phenomenal things about the European Union is its extraordinary capacity to be able to work both as a unified entity, in which all 27 voices act as one, and as a federation, in fact, of its member states. In order to be able to function in this manner, the European Union also needs functional institutions. John McCormick is keen in this part of the book to describe both how all these European institutions operate internally (the European Commission, the Council of Ministers, the European Parliament, the European Court of Justice and the European Council and Specialized Agencies) and, additionally, how they are able to work with one another in a functional manner. Each of these institutions is allocated a separate chapter, with generally the same structure that includes the institution's structure, its evolution, functionality and the way it works etc.
The final part of the book deals with policies. Policies, in fact, make institutions work and they manage to fix rules to which all countries members of the European Union must adhere by. Some of these are extremely complicated: the common agricultural policy, for example, dates almost to the very beginning of the European Union (back in the 1960s) and has evolved throughout time, despite remaining one of the fundamental pillars of the EU policies. Other policies, such as the cohesion policy, described in chapter 14, help new member states better integrate, from an economical and social perspective, into the union by allocating specific budgets for the development of certain regions.
The last two chapters, despite belonging to the same part on policies, have a forward looking perspective, trying to discuss the common foreign and security policies that the European Union is trying to put in place (chapter 15) and determine how the EU and the U.S. are likely to be working together in the next period of time, as well as the challenges that this relationship is likely to face.
In terms of the common foreign and security policy, the author is keen to emphasize the economic role of the European Union...
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