A Common Mans Guide to the Common Market [Paperback]

The purpose of this revised and extended book is to try to explain how the policies of the Community are meant to achieve its primary objectives. A short history of the foundation and major events are included and the formal institutions and the actual decision-making processes are explained.The institutions of the European Community; the policy-making process in the European Community; Community law; the Common Market; the common agricultural policy; the common fisheries policy; policies relating to industry and the environment; community energy policy; regional policy; social policy; the Community budget; economic and monetary union and the European Monetary System; the common commercial policy; the Community and the Mediterranean; the Community and the Third World; political co-operation.