PART ONE: CONTEXT INSTITUTIONS AND CONCEPTS/Introducing the EU as a Jurisdiction and Planning Subject/The Quest for European Union/The Institutions and Powers of the EU/Language and Meaning/The Tower of Babel Problem/PART TWO: POLICY SECTORS/A Chronology of Spatial Policy Development/Ways of Looking at EU Space/The Cohesion and Structural Funds/The Pot of Gold at the End of the Rainbow/Hands across the Border/Networking Lobbying and Crossborder Planning/Transport and Trans-European Networks/Environment Policy/Towards an Urban Policy/Europe 2000+ and the State of Policy Development/PART THREE:OPERATING IN EUROPE/The Professions and Planning Practice/The European Functions of Local Planning Authorities/PART FOUR: CONCLUSIONS/Future Agendas/The New Planning Scale?