Part I: Institutions, Processes, and Theory. Chapter 1 The Institutional Setting, Helen Wallace --- Chapter 2: The Policy Process, Helen Wallace --- Chapter 3: Analysing and Explaining Policies, Helen Wallace ---- Part II: Policies. Chapter 4: The Single Market, Helen Wallace and Alasdair Young --- Chapter 5: Competition Policy, Francis McGowan --- Chapter 6: Economic and Monetary Union, Loukas Tsoukalis --- Chapter 7: The Common Agricultural Policy, Elmar Rieger --- Chapter 8: The Budget, Brigid Laffan & Michael Shackleton --- Chapter 9: Cohesion and the Structural Funds, David Allen --- Chapter 10: Social Policy, Stephan Leibfried & Paul Pierson --- Chapter 11: Environmental Policy, Alberta Sbragia --- Chapter 12: Biotechnology Policy, Lee Ann Patterson --- Chapter 13: The Common Fisheries Policy, Christian Lequesne --- Chapter 14: European Trade Policy, Stephen Woolcock --- Chapter 15: Trade with Developing Countries, Christopher Stevens --- Chapter 16: Eastern Enlargement, Ulrich Sedelmeier and Helen Wallace --- Chapter 17: Common Foreign and Security Policy, Anthony Forster and William Wallace --- Chapter 18: Justice and Home Affairs, Monica den Boer and William Wallace ---- Part III: Conclusions. Chapter 19: Collective governance: the EU political process, William Wallace.