We present a unified model of the politics of the European Union(EU). We focus on the effects of the EU s changing treaty base from thefounding Rome Treaty (ratified in 1958) to the Single European Act (SEA,1987), the Maastricht Treaty on European Union (1993), and the AmsterdamTreaty (1999) on the relations among its three supranationalinstitutions the Commission of the European Communities, the EuropeanCourt of Justice, and the European Parliament and between these actorsand the intergovernmental Council of Ministers. We conceive of theseinstitutions in terms of the roles they perform in the three corefunctions of the modern state: to legislate and formulate policy(legislative branch), to administer and implement policy (executivebranch), and to interpret policy and adjudicate disputes (judicialbranch).
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