European Commission

Neill Nugent is Emeritus Professor of Politics at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He has published widely on the European Union and in 2013 was given a Lifetime Achievement Award in Contemporary European Studies by the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES). Mark Rhinard is Associate Professor at Stockholm University, Sweden, and Senior Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs. His research explores the institutional politics of the European Union, with an emphasis on internal and external security cooperation. His previous work on the Commission includes Framing Europe: the policy shaping strategies of the European Commission (Republic of Letters Publishing and Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2010).

• 1.Introduction2.An Overview of the Commission3.The History of the Commission4.The President5.The College6. Commissioners' Cabinet7. The Services8. Personnel9. The Commission's Relations with Other EU Actors10. The Provision of Leadership11. The Making of EU Legislation12. Executive Functions13. External Relations14. Conclusions.

Review of 1st Edition: "[A] comprehensive and valuable examination of the responsibilities, work and organization of the European Commission. It will be hard for those to wish to understand the European institutions to do without it...[It] provides a large amount of information and, most importantly, its judgements are balanced. In this book I immediately recognize the Commission in which I served at the highest level for ten years." - Lord Williamson, Former Secretary General of the Commission, Journal of Common Market Studies