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A watershed in efforts to integrate "Europe", the plans to widen the EU will inevitably conflict with forces for deepening integration. Focusing on economic factors, this volume explores the key questions of widening, including why the negotiations are likely to be contentious for all concerned.
This study relates the underdevelopment of southern Italy's Mezzogiorno to Italy's participation in the European Economic Community. In the tracing of its origins and evolution, the Mezzogiomo's underdevelopment is shown to have been intensified under Italy's current ruling class.
Who were key figures in the making of European monetary union? Which ideas did they contribute to ensuring that monetary union would be sustainable? How prescient were they in identifying the necessary and sufficient foundations of a sustainable monetary union? This book provides the first systematic historical examination of key architects of European monetary union in the period before its launch in 1999. Using original archival and interview research, it investigates the intellectual and career backgrounds of these architects, their networking skills, and their own doubts and reservations about the way in which monetary union was being constructed. In the light of the later Euro Area, Architects of the Euro deals critically with not just their contribution to the making of European monetary union but also their legacy. The book brings together a distinguished group of scholars working on the history of Economic and Monetary Union.
Introduced with a preface by Jacques Delors, this volume offers new insights and develops generalised theories about the nature of European integration. The contributors step back from the detail of the latest intergovernmental conference and budgetary negotiations to generate conclusions of enduring value. The issues dealt with include the following: * Britain and integration * intergovernmental conferences * the rule of law * making foreign policy work * the democratic deficit.
Per Albertini la creazione e il riesame del federalismo sono stati la conseguenza della sua dote straordinaria di uomo storico e di militante e dirigente (quadri come egli definì i responsabili del M.F.E.) del Movimento Federalista Europeo. Egli è stato prima di tutto un uomo di azione. C’è una osservazione di Hegel particolarmente adatta a descrivere la personalità di Albertini: «I grandi uomini nella storia […] non avevano nei loro scopi la coscienza dell’idea in generale, bensì erano uomini pratici e politici» . Albertini ha concentrato i propri sforzi nell’ampliamento della portata della teoria federalista nella direzione della globalità, convinto com’era che un grande disegno politico esigeva una cultura nuova, un nuovo pensiero politico.
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This book explores what is, for many African countries, a new and controversial policy of relying on private actors rather than on government organizations to foster economic growth and development. The contributors explore key issues such as the impact of private enterprise on the development process, small- and medium-sized businesses as a vehicle for growth, and strategies for the expansion of markets and trade. The contributors analyze the historical, social, cultural, and economic obstacles to the development of private enterprise in Africa; the roles of government, women, and business organizations; access to capital and the function of financial institutions; private initiative and agriculture; the use of skilled and semi-skilled labor; and technology transfer. Arguing that private sector forces are crucial to African socioeconomic development, the contributors recommend economic policy reform, establishment of more private enterprises, and encouragement of new domestic and foreign investment.