The Parliamentary Roots of European Social Policy: Turning Talk Into Power

by Mechthild Roos

The European Parliament (EP) - a powerful actor in today's European Union - was not intended to be more than a consultative assembly at first. Yet this book shows that the EP was much more influential in shaping Community policy in the early years of the integration process than either the founding Treaties or most existing scholarship would allow. It studies the EP's institutional evolution through the lens of Community social policy, a policy area...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030782352
• ISBN13: 9783030782351
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 315 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"