Written by the same team that produced Westminster and Europe [1996], this book reports and analyzes the major developments in the relationship between Britain and the European Union between the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty and the British General Election of 2001. Britain in the European Union focuses particularly on the EU's impact on parliamentary institutions in the UK and on law and policy in such controversial areas as employment and the social chapter, foreign and security policy, enlargement and governance, immigration and asylum and the single currency.

CAROLE ANDREWS Head of the International Affairs and Defence Section, Research Service, House of Commons Library, UK PRISCILLA BAINES House of Commons Librarian, UK CHRISTINE FRETTEN Senior Librarian, International Affairs and Defence Section, Research Service, House of Commons Library, UK GABRIELLE GARTON GRIMWOOD Senior Researcher, House of Commons LIbrary, UK JULIA LOURIE Research Service, House of Commons Library, UK DAVID MIERS Professor of Law, Cardiff University, UK VAUGHNE MILLER Senior Research Clerk, International Affairs and Defence Section, Research Service, House of Commons Library, UK ALAN PAGE Professor of Public Law, University of Dundee, UK SIMON PATRICK Deputy Principal Clerk, Journal Office and Clerk of the Procedure Committee, UK RICHARD WARE Head of the Office of the Clerk, House of Commons, UK EDWARD WOOD Director of Information Services, House of Commons Library, UK ALEX WRIGHT Lecturer, Department of Politics, Dundee University, UK JOANNE WRIGHT Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK