Trans-European Networks
Trans-European Networks

Author: D. Johnson

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-12-22

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 0230373208

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Trans-European networks (TENs) are a key theme in the process of integration for the EU as it enters the next millennium. The attainment of these networks stretches across many different areas of European policy and economy. The development of TENs is about establishing a series of infrastructure networks that complement the broad changes in the European economy facilitated by the development of the Single European Market. The book examines the development of TENs in the three key sectors: transport, energy and telecommunications, noting key themes and issues that need to be faced in their attainment. Attention is also paid to common problems in their realisation most notably the financing problems. The EU's strategy to develop these networks is essentially market-led yet, as the financing issues indicate, a consensus between the states in allowing commercial investment in infrastructure is proving elusive.

Telecommunications for Europe 1992
Telecommunications for Europe 1992

Author: Herbert Ungerer

Publisher: IOS Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 664

ISBN-13: 9789051990478

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This work constitutes a continuation of the first volume of the source book, published 1989 and which contained the work leading up to, including, and immediately following the Green Paper on the Development of the Common Market for Telecommunications Services and Equipment. The first volume covered the period up to the end of 1988, while this second volume covers regulatory and policy developments in 1989 and 1990.

Region-building
Region-building

Author: Ludger Kühnhardt

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2010-07-01

Total Pages: 511

ISBN-13: 1845458397

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After two centuries of nation-building, the world has entered an era of region-building in search of political stability, cultural cohesion, and socio-economic development. Nations involved in the regional structures and integration schemes that are emerging in most regions of the world are deepening their ambitions, with Europe’s integration experience often used as an experimental template or theoretical model. Volume I provides a political-analytical framework for recognizing the central role of the European Union not only as a conceptual model but also a normative engine in the global proliferation of regional integration. It also gives a comprehensive treatment of the focus, motives, and objectives of non-European integration efforts. Volume II offers a unique collection of documents that give the best available overview of the legal and political evolution of region-building based on official documents and stated objectives of the relevant regional groupings across all continents. Together, these volumes are important contributions for understanding the evolution of global affairs in an age when power shifts provide new challenges and opportunities for transatlantic partners and the world community.