Introduction

Abstract

This book examines the role of the Spanish central state or government and its relations with other key domestic actors in the European Union (EU) policy-making process. Although literature on European integration has moved beyond the traditional state-centred perspective and increasingly adopted diverse approaches, new angles or different ‘conceptual lenses’¹ (Allison, 1971, p. 253), the role of the central state, and many unanswered questions about its relations with other actors, remains a key focus. This book adopts a dynamic approach which centres neither wholly on the central government nor on other domestic actors, but on the changing interaction between the two.