Negotiating European Union

The European Union can be perceived as an enormous bilateral and multilateral process of internal and external negotiation. This book examines negotiations within member states, between member states, within and between the institutions of the Union and between the EU and other countries. It also analyzed processes, actors and interests. This book is, therefore, a unique probe into the relatively unknown arena of negotiation processes in the European Union.

Franz Cede is legal adviser to the Austrian Foreign Ministry and has participated in numerous international conferences and bilateral negotiations. He was also a regular delegate to the General Assembly of the United Nations. In 1999 Dr. Ceded became Austrian Ambassador to the Russian Federation and since 2003 he is Austrian Ambassador to Belgium, also representing his country at NATO.

Paul Meerts studied political science and international relations at the Universities of Amsterdam and Leiden. He has been Research Fellow on Dutch Political History at the Universities of Leiden and Groningen, as well as coordinator of diplomatic training at the Netherlands Society of International Affairs and the Netherlands Institute of International Relations 'Clingendael'. Since 1990 he is Deputy Director of the Clingendael Institute. As a consultant in Diplomatic Negotiation he trained diplomats and civil servants in more than seventy countries. He wrote on interstate bargaining, focusing on its political dimensions. Paul Meerts holds an honorary doctorate from the National University of Mongolia.