| 1 |   | The EUs institutions : an overview by John Peterson and Michael Shackleton |   | 1 | 
| 2 |   | Institutional change in the EU by Renaud Dehousse and Paul Magnette |   | 17 | 
| 3 |   | The European Council by Philippe de Schoutheete |   | 37 | 
| 4 |   | The council of ministers by Fiona Hayes-Renshaw |   | 60 | 
| 5 |   | The college of commissioners by John Peterson |   | 81 | 
| 6 |   | The European Parliament by Michael Shackleton |   | 104 | 
| 7 |   | The European Court of Justice by Torn Kennedy |   | 125 | 
| 8 |   | The commissions services by Liesbet Hooghe and Neill Nugent |   | 147 | 
| 9 |   | Managing the Euro- the European Central Bank by Kathleen R. McNamara |   | 169 | 
| 10 |   | Managing Europeanization : the European agencies by Giondomenico Majone |   | 190 | 
| 11 |   | Financial control : the court of auditors and OLAF by Brigid Laffan |   | 210 | 
| 12 |   | Security interests : police and judicial cooperation by Theodora Kostakopoulou |   | 231 | 
| 13 |   | International interests : the common foreign and security policy by Michael E. Smith and Brian Crowe and John Peterson |   | 252 | 
| 14 |   | National interests : Coreper by Jeffrey Lewis |   | 272 | 
| 15 |   | Political interests : the European Parliaments party groups by Tapio Raunio |   | 293 | 
| 16 |   | Social and regional interests : the economic and social committee and committee of the regions by Charlie Jeffery |   | 312 | 
| 17 |   | Conclusion by John Peterson and Michael Shackleton |   | 331 |