This book is about the impact of European governance on the time of national policymakers and institutions. It shows how European policymaking changes over time, how a new temporal logic has developed and the effect of this on EU institutions.

1. The temporal dimension of European Governance
2. The oligopoly of the future: the changed status of political promise
3. Back to the present: new conditions for political action
4. The recurring past: transformed horizons for policy planning
5. Institutional implications of European time

Magnus Ekengren is Deputy Director of the Policy Planning Group of the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs