This revised and updated edition of the best-selling guide to the workings of the European Union is invaluable for anyone who wants to understand how the EU has developed and how it works:

• How the institutions and committees work both in theory and in practice
• Where the money for the EU comes from and where it goes
• Facts and figures about the bureaucracy
• The single market and what it means for business
• The effects and implications of monetary and economic union and a single currency
• The political considerations that will determine the character and size of the European Union in the future.
• Every sphere of EU activity from workers' and women's rights to fishing and farming

Now in its ninth edition, The Economist Guide to the European Union is well established as the most clear and comprehensive guide to how the EU operates. For everyone who lives and works in the EU—and for others who do business with EU countries—there is no better source of reference.