Policy-making in the EU has far-reaching implications for the EU's member states and citizens, and for the wider world. It is constantly evolving as part of this ongoing experiment in the collective governance of a multinational continent. The eighth edition of this comprehensive text explores the processes, institutions, and modes through which policy is made, before looking at key individual policies in detail. New to this Edition: Detailed assessments of the implications of politicization for European policy-making, Evaluation of the emerging consequences of the UK's departure on EU policy-making, New chapters on the EU's digital policy and development policy, Coverage of the 2015 surge in migrants to the EU, the Covid-19 pandemic, and the 'America First' foreign policy of the Trump administration Book jacket.