The Political Economy of European Integration
The Political Economy of European Integration

Author: Finn Laursen

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-12-11

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9004639039

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The study of European integration produced much scholarly debate in the 1950s and '60s. The following two decades saw few works on European integration that included more elaborate discussions of theory and methodology; most studies in that period were fairly descriptive. In recent years there has been renewed theoretical interest in European integration. This book, however, is one of the first to discuss and apply various political-economy approaches explicitly to integration, including classical integration theory and modern public choice theories. Areas covered include common policies and decision making, as well as the external relations of the EU. The influence of the European Parliament, the concept of subsidiarity, trade policy, Economic and Monetary Union, reform of the Common Agricultural Policy, relations with EFTA and Eastern European countries, as well as enlargement, are all discussed. Audience: Of interest to both scholars and policy makers concerned with these issues.

International Monetary Fund Annual Report 2021
International Monetary Fund Annual Report 2021

Author: International Monetary Fund. Secretary's Department

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2021-10-04

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13: 1513568817

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A recovery is underway, but the economic fallout from the global pandemic could be with us for years to come. With the crisis exacerbating prepandemic vulnerabilities, country prospects are diverging. Nearly half of emerging market and developing economies and some middle-income countries are now at risk of falling further behind, undoing much of the progress made toward achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

The Wider Western Europe
The Wider Western Europe

Author: Helen Wallace

Publisher: Burns & Oates

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9781855670884

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As the dramatic events of 1989 in Eastern Europe made clear, the debate about the future of Europe can no longer be confined to Western Europe but must embrace the aspirations of Europe as a whole. The primary current of the European community to achieve economic and political integration is proving increasingly seductive to the remaining West European countries - at least as regards the creation of a single market by 1992. For those still outside the EC fold, the choices are difficult: to try to join fully in the Community's endavours; to keep at a respectable, but watchful, distance; or to forge a new relationship. For the members of the EC, the old debate between deepening and widening remains a dilemma, made a good deal more challenging as a result of the changes in Central and Eastern Europe. The dialogue between the EC and the members of the European Free Trade Association - Austria, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland - started as an apparently self-contained set of discussions in Western Europe; it is now caught in the web of the wider transformation of Europe as a whole.