The Economist Guide to the European Union

The definitive guide to the EU. This best-selling guide to the workings of the European Union provides comprehensive coverage of the development of the Union; how it works: the institutions, the mechanisms; every area of EU competence from agriculture to workers' rights; the effects of the single market and the single currency. This Guide to the European Union is well established as the clearest and most comprehensive guide to how the EU operates. This new edition brings you up to date at a crucial stage following the replacement of the mark, franc, lira, peseta and seven other currencies by the euro and at a time when Britain edges closer to putting euro zone membership to the vote in a referendum.