Information flows in EU policy-making are heavily dependent on personal networks, both within the Brussels sphere but also reaching outside the narrow limits of the Belgian capital. These networks develop for example in the course of formal and informal meetings or at the sidelines of such...

From modest origins as specific types of state-interest group relations, policy network approaches have developed in a series of phases, with the appearance of network typologies, interorganizational analyses and diversified frameworks. To understand and judge network approaches, it is necessary...