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Full of...insight...a valuable introduction to what is undisputably the most important of the European Union's institutions.' - Martin Westlake, Times Higher Education Supplement;The Council is the least understood of the institutions of the European Union. This major new study provides a comprehensive assessment of the ways in which ministers and officials from the member states negotiate to produce European legislation and develop common policies. It explains the formal procedures and the informal practices of the Council and assesses the relations of the Council with other EU institutions against the backcloth of proposals for further institutional reforms.