Multilevel Union Administration The Transformation of Executive Politics in Europe

This book shows that the executive branch of government has added a supranational level that increasingly seems to operate in a similar way to national governments. The European Commission administration has enhanced its professional integrity while the College emerges as a fully-fledged political body. As a whole the Commission seems to operate very much according to a sectoral logic rather than a territorial one. Case studies illuminate how a genuine Community Administration might evolve.

MORTEN EGEBERG is Director of ARENA-Centre for European Studies and Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo, Norway.