List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Boxes -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Chapter One Introduction -- 1.1. Problems -- 1.2. The structure of the book and instructions for reading -- 1.3. Methodological considerations -- Part I Concepts, Theories, and Context of the EU administration -- Chapter Two The EU's administration - a political hybrid between a national and an international administration -- 2.1. What characterizes an administration? -- 2.2. What characterizes an international administration ? -- 2.3. The bureaucrat in the international administration -- 2.4. The influence of the international administration -- 2.5. The surroundings of the international administration -- Chapter Three Organizational theories and the EU administration -- 3.1. Organizational structure of the EU administration -- 3.2. Organizational processes of the EU administration -- 3.3. Organizational culture of the EU-administration -- 3.4. Legitimacy of the EU administration -- 3.5. Efficiency of the EU administration -- 3.6. The EU's administration as a 'political bureaucracy ' -- Chapter Four The EU administration in context -- 4.1. The historical context -- 4.2. The legal context: the treaties -- 4.3. The legal context: the legal acts -- 4.4. The political context: EU's institutions -- 4.5. The political context: EU's decision-making procedures -- 4.6. EU's Context and the implication for the EU administration -- Part II Administration and Institutions of the European Union -- Chapter Five Staffing the EU institutions -- 5.1. The staff of the EU's administration: The Eurocrats and the rest -- 5.2. Recruitment of Eurocrats -- 5.3. Career service -- 5.4. Staff regulations -- 5.5. Salaries -- Chapter Six The Commission - Organizational Structure, Processes, and Culture -- 6.1. The Commission and the Organizational Structure.

6.1.1. The features of the Commission -- 6.1.2. The President of the Commission -- 6.1.3. The political level: the commissioners -- 6.1.4. Cabinets of commissioners -- 6.1.5. The bureaucratic structure of the Commission -- 6.1.6. Conflicts between different branches of the Commission -- 6.1.7. Commission communications -- 6.2. Organizational processes of the Commission -- 6.2.1. Functions of the Commission in the decision-making process -- 6.2.2. Executive powers of the Commission -- 6.2.3. Comitology: The EU's system of committees -- 6.2.4. Lobbyism and Eurocrats -- 6.3. The organizational culture of the Commission -- 6.3.1. The nationality of Eurocrats -- 6.3.2. Commission transparency -- Chapter Seven The Council of Ministers - Organizational Structure, Processes and Culture -- 7.1. The Organizational structure of the Council of Ministers -- 7.1.1. An outline of the evolution of the Council of Ministers -- 7.1.2. The current structure of the Council of Ministers -- 7.1.3. The Presidency of the Council of Ministers -- 7.1.4. The mode of operation in the Council of Ministers -- 7.1.5. The position of the Council of Ministers -- 7.2. The organizational processes of the Council of Ministers -- 7.2.1. The Council of Ministers as an organ of decision-making -- 7.2.2. Th e Council secretariat -- 7.2.3. Coreper -- 7.2.4. The working groups of the Council of Ministers -- 7.2.5. Organization processes between the levels of the Council of Ministers -- 7.2.6. Negotiations and decision-making procedure between the Member States in the Council of Ministers -- 7.3. Organizational culture of the Council of Ministers -- 7.3.1. Secretariat of the Council of Ministers -- 7.3.2. Sessions in the Council of Ministers -- 7.3.3. Public access to Council documents -- 7.3.4. Esprit de corps in the Council bureaucracy.

7.3.5. Esprit de corps of the Permanent Representations -- Chapter Eight Perspectives - Efficiency and legitimacy of the EU administration -- Bibliography -- Index.