The study presents the legal and political framework of the EP's institutional position in the EU's common foreign and security policy and analyses the constitutional role of selected national parliaments in foreign policy.

A critical appraisal of current policies in the EU and selected national systems.

In 1992 Nobel Prize-winning economist James Tobin suggested a tax on currency operations 'to throw some sand in the wheels of speculation'. Interest in the proposal has now been re-kindled as governments search for 'a new international financial architecture'. A Tobin Tax would penalise...