The trouble with Europe: why the EU isn't working, how it can be reformed, what could take its place
After the carnage of two world wars, and the polarization of the globe between the emergent superpowers, Europe's leaders had a noble dream of founding a new union that would contain its members destructive tendencies, but also act as a beacon of free trade, human rights and cooperation. As this organization attracted new countries, including Britain in the 1970s, the European Economic Community eventually became the European Union, and a seemingly inevitable march toward a federal super-state …
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- Full title :The trouble with Europe : why the EU isn't working, how it can be reformed, what could take its place / Roger Bootle.
Summary
After the carnage of two world wars, and the polarization of the globe between the emergent superpowers, Europe's leaders had a noble dream of founding a new union that would contain its members destructive tendencies, but also act as a beacon of free trade, human rights and cooperation. As this organization attracted new countries, including Britain in the 1970s, the European Economic Community eventually became the European Union, and a seemingly inevitable march toward a federal super-state began, culminating in the creation of the totemic, but economically suspect single currency: the euro.
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- Publication Date:c2016.
- Edition:3rd edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Nicholas Brealey Publishing
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:c2016.
The Physical Object
- Description:353 pages : : illustrations, maps ; : 20 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781857886153, 1857886151, 9781857886559, 1857886550
- oclc:on1027123824
- LC Classification:HC240.B6426 2016
- Dewey Decimal:337./142
Table of Contents
Introduction: The trouble with Europe -- Part I: Past history and present purpose -- How the EU came into being and why -- The trouble with the EU as a political institution -- Part II: The economics of the EU -- Has the EU been an economic success? -- The role of the euro -- Europe's economic future -- Part III: Reform, dissolution or departure -- Reform or dissolution? -- The costs and benefits of leaving the EU -- What institutional arrangements could take the EU's place? -- Postscript: History moves on.
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