France's President Emmanuel Macron and Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz have stressed the geopolitical emergency of re-designing the European Union's relationship with its neighbourhood. Both acknowledge that EU enlargement is necessary, but also emphasise that profound EU institutional reform...

This book provides a country-by-country analysis of how European policy is made and applied in the Member States. Its central focus is the involvement of national institutions and how non-state actors interact and fit into the Union's system.