Leadership in the Big Bangs of European Integration

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The EU Presidency: France in the 2000 IGC

Chapter 3 Drawing Lessons in the Chair: Assessing the Dutch Presidency’s Impact during the Maastricht and Amsterdam Conferences

Chapter 4 The EU Presidency – Comparing the Italian and Irish Presidencies of the 2003–04 Intergovernmental Conference

Chapter 5 Oiling the Wheels of Compromise: The Council Secretariat in the 1996–97 and 2003–4 IGCs

Chapter 6 Leader or Bystander? The European Commission and EU Treaty Reform

Chapter 7 A Formal Outsider Becomes an Effective Player: The European Parliament in the Negotiation of the Treaty of Amsterdam and the Constitutional Treaty

Chapter 9 Cooperative Hegemon, Missing Engine or Improbable Core? Explaining French–German Influence in European Treaty Reform

Chapter 10 Britain and the European Union: A Laggard Leader?

Chapter 11 The Constitutional Treaty and Poland – A New Laggard in the EU?

Chapter 12 Is There Anyone in Charge? Leadership in EU Constitutional Negotiations

Chapter 13 Conclusions