| Author (Person) | Guyomarch, Alain |
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| Publisher | Macmillan |
| Series Title | The European Union |
| Publication Date | 1998 |
| ISBN | 0-333-59357-X (Hbk) |
| Content Type | Textbook | Monograph |
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This book provides an assessment as to how and to what extent politics and policy-making in France have changed as a consequence of membership of the European Union. The book also looks at the linked questions - how French politicians and officials have contributed to building European institutions and to making common policies within those institutions, and to what extent EU membership has allowed French governments greater influence over global trends than they would otherwise have exercised. In carrying out their original research for this volume the authors examined the relevant official documentation in France at a parliamentary and ministerial level and at the EU level, and carried out around 200 interviews and discussions with French officials and politicians, trade unionists, business leaders and representatives of interest groups. What emerges is the growing degree of collaboration and bargaining between French and other European policy-makers, with the French government, like its counterparts in Western Europe, involved in an increasingly dense set of administrative and political processes at the European level. One major consequence of this shared policy-making has been to contribute to the decline in the traditional regulatory and dirigiste role of the French state in recent years. Guyomarch, Alain (et al.) |
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| Countries / Regions | France |
