EU legislation has worldwide and serious impacts for governments, businesses and consumers. In this systematic and practical handbook, expert Brussels professionals share their insights, tips and strategies for engaging successfully with the process by which these laws are made. The authors show how lobbying is a multi-stage end-to-end process and explain the opportunities, challenges and risks at each step.

The book is full of real-world insights, timelines for how legislation is adopted, c...

De overheid heeft een centrale plaats in onze maatschappij. Vrijwel iedereen krijgt ermee te maken. Kennis over de organisatie, het functioneren van de overheid en de wijze van besluitvorming komen dan ook in veel opleidingen aan bod. Profiel van de Nederlandse overheid legt de structuur en het functioneren van de Nederlandse overheid helder en in hoofdlijnen uit. Hiermee wordt een stevige basis gelegd met betrekking tot de kennis over de Nederlandse overheid.

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EU legislation has major impacts on virtually every aspect of life in the EU Member States, as well as on many businesses and other stakeholders in non-member countries. However the EU decision-making process, with its complex and unique interplay between institutions and stakeholders, can seem an impenetrable mystery.

This book is a foundation text explaining systematically and comprehensively how this decision-making works. Successive chapters explain the role of each of the EU institution...