This volume examines the tension between competitiveness/liberalization and the reduction of regional inequalities within the European Union on the verge of territorial expansion. Areas covered include the Single Market, external trade policy, enterprise policies, research and technological development, the Common Agricultural Policy, transport policy, telecommunications policy, social and employment policy, and structural policies.

This book examines the political economy of the European Union and the process of economic integration in Western Europe. It argues that a regional economy is rapidly taking shape and that, in the process, economic order in Europe is also changing. It identifies the distinguishing features of this new European economy and the main challenges for the future.
This third, revised edition contains a full discussion of the enlargement of the EU and its recent incorporation of new nations. It examines aspects of this enlargement in a new chapter on regional and structural issues, with a...

As the European Union moves towards enlargement, What Kind of Europe? pinpoints the crucial issues which will shape its future as a regional, economic, and political entity. Loukas Tsoukalis is one of the world's leading scholars on European integration; in this book he writes for any reader interested in the key democratic choices facing Europe's citizens.

As the European Union moves towards enlargement, What Kind of Europe? pinpoints the crucial issues which will shape its future as a regional, economic, and political entity. Loukas Tsoukalis is one of the world's leading scholars on European integration; in this book he writes for any reader interested in the key democratic choices facing Europe's citizens.

The Delphic Oracle on Europe brings together leading thinkers and policy-makers from different academic disciplines and policy-oriented backgrounds from all over Europe. The chapters reflect on ways forward for the European Union in a time of global crisis and profound change. Contributors debate the institutional and political consequences of the Lisbon Treaty, the reform of economic governance in light of the economic and financial crisis, and Europe's global role in a rapidly changing international and regional environment.
The volume is divided into three parts: Part I focuses on the...

Europe has not been so weak and divided for a long time. Buffeted by a succession of crises, its collective capacity to deliver has been truly disappointing. In times when the tectonic plates are shifting and tension between global markets and national democracies is rising, can Europe hold together, under what terms - and indeed for what purpose?
The euro crisis has left big scars and is still far from over. The contradiction of a currency without a state will not be easy to resolve. And the combination of high debt with persistently slow growth, large numbers of unemployed in many parts...