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...

The 2023 Ultimate EU Test Book Administrators edition has been updated to match the new format for EPSO competitions after May 2023, which has shorter timelines, some tests dropped, and new ones added.

The 2023 Administrators edition covers the new competition process all the way through to the establishment of the Reserve List − the list of laureates eligible for recruitment to permanent posts by the EU institutions. In it you will find:

• What the new-style EPSO Administrator competitio...

In this call to action, Renew Europe MEP Urmas Paet, who was Estonian foreign minister from 2005-2014, forensically examines the EU’s too-often ineffective performance in the face of a wide range of foreign policy challenges. Lack of consensus among the member states, slow decision-making, strategic confusion, poor engagement with potential partners and an absence of real conviction are constant themes.

The inescapable conclusion is that in foreign policy the EU, while a source of ceaseless...

This is a practical handbook and guide created by Brussels public affairs and communications specialists for other public affairs professionals. This new edition has been updated and expanded for the 2025-2029 Commission/European Parliament term.

The book’s emphasis is on the realities of when and exactly how to engage with the EU institutions to achieve maximum impact, with systematic advice on best practice and campaign management. It is packed with real-world insights generously shared ...

This book tells the story of the UK Members of the European Parliament from the first direct elections in 1979 to British withdrawal in 2020.

Their work was rarely acknowledged in their own country, making them for the most part a “forgotten tribe”. Nonetheless, in the words of former UK permanent representative Ivan Rogers: “The EU as a whole benefitted hugely from the expertise, the wisdom, the breadth, the temperament, the professionalism, the humour and even the constructive health...

This expanded and updated edition 2.0 is for all EU staff, at all levels, permanent, temporary or contract − and indeed anyone with ambitions to work in the EU sphere. It is supported by a free-to-use self-assessment app. With this book you will be able to:

● Understand the EU ‘core competencies’ of analysis and problem solving, communicating, delivering quality and results, learning and development, prioritising and organising, resilience, working with others, and leadership and how ...

This 20th anniversary edition of The Ultimate EU Test Book covers the updated 2025 suite of tests used by EPSO for Administrator competitions. It is packed with practical advice on learning strategies to maximise your chances of success. There are hundreds of practice test questions explaining the shortcuts to finding correct answers quickly and the common errors that candidates make. And, for the first time, the Administrators edition now includes coverage of the interviews and other oral te...

This book is a foundation text explaining in detail how EU legislative decision-making works in the Commission/European Parliament term that runs to 2029. Successive chapters explain the role of each of the EU institutions in the legislative process, describing the internal mechanisms and each step in sequence.

The book then moves on to show how the interplay of the institutions, and the engagement of stakeholders, works in practical terms to shape legislation from start to finish, with deta...

The Ultimate EU Test Book Administrators 2024 edition has been updated to reflect the new format of European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) competitions and includes hundreds of new test questions and exercises.

The 2024 Administrators edition covers the new competition process all the way through to the establishment of the Reserve List − the list of laureates eligible for recruitment to permanent posts by the EU institutions. It is packed with practical advice on how to maximise your ...