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The purpose of this article is to present the problem of medical law in European terms. This article discusses the topic of European Union health policy. The history of EU integration in terms of the law governing medical standards will be traced. Specific provisions of the treaties and the most important directives will be discussed as well as landmark cases decided by the CJEU. Another element of the article is a summary of the community's activities in terms of EU funding for health programmes through the European Health Plans. The change in funding and the emphasis on different is gradually transforming the way EU health policy is viewed. The article explains how the EU's solutions work and the phenomena occurring within it, and this translates into understanding and being able to create future solutions that are better for Europeans.

Marks reviews 'Policy-Making in the European Union,' edited by Helen Wallace and William Wallace.

Baun, Michael and Marek, Dan (2014). Cohesion Policy in the European Union. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 272 pages.

The European Union's foreign policy is full of paradoxes. The Union aspires to be a powerful international actor without becoming a super-state. It hopes to prevent and manage conflicts, but refrains from acquiring the military means to do so. It embarks on the project of widening its borders, but continues its deepening project which makes the entrance hurdles for applicant countries ever higher. It wishes to maintain strong transatlantic links, but continues to build institutions that make the EU more independent from - if not competitive with - the United States. In this stimulating book, distinguished European and American intellectuals offer solutions to imperative but unanswered questions: How can the Union's enormous normative `power of attraction' combined with its operational weakness be explained? Can the Union remain a `civilian power' when coping with an `uncivilized' world? Can a European foreign policy get off the ground without prior emergence of a European demos? Are national policies within the Union increasingly convergent or divergent? And how can the Union's international performance be assessed?

International audience ; France shares a paradox with the UK: its highly unified state and political culture has a tradition of independent action that often takes badly to European constraint, but that same highly unified state and political culture underpin an effective model of engagement in EU health policymaking. It is no surprise that both member states are regularly accused of hypocrisy. It is virtually written into their constitutions.

International audience ; France shares a paradox with the UK: its highly unified state and political culture has a tradition of independent action that often takes badly to European constraint, but that same highly unified state and political culture underpin an effective model of engagement in EU health policymaking. It is no surprise that both member states are regularly accused of hypocrisy. It is virtually written into their constitutions.