By examining the various policy subfields of European economic integration such as agriculture, trade, banking, economic governance and sustainability this book offers a comprehensive and wide-ranging analysis of developments that have taken place in the past five years aimed at exploring the path of economic integration in Europe.

Autorentext
Annette Bongardt, St. Antony's College, University of Oxford, UK Béatrice Dumont, University of Paris 13, France Peter Holmes, Centre for the Analysis of Regional Integration at Sussex (CARIS) Timothy Edward Josling, Stanford University, USA Heikki Oksanen, University of Helsinki, Finland Jacques Pelkmans, CEPS in Brussels, Belgium Paul Schure, University of Victoria in Canada Susan Senior Nello, Siena University, Italy Alan Swinbank, University of Reading, UK Niels Thygesen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Francisco Torres, Oxford University, UK

Inhalt
List of Tables and Graphs Foreword Preface Acknowledgements Biographies List of Abbreviations 1. Introduction; Amy Verdun and Alfred Tovias 2. EU Agricultural Policies and European Integration: A Thematic Review of the Literature; Tim Josling and Alan Swinbank 3. Trade Policy; Peter Holmes and Alfred Tovias 4. EU Competition Policy From an Economic Perspective: Shaping Policy or Shaped by Policy?; Peter Holmes and Beatrice Dumont 5. The Economics of Single Market Regulation; Jacques Pelkmans 6. European Financial Market Integration; Paul Schure 7. Governance in the Euro Area - Approaching an Optimum Currency Area?; Niels Thygesen 8. Economic Governance and Sustainability; Annette Bongardt and Francisco Torres 9. EU Enlargement and Theories of Economic Integration; Susan Senior Nello 10. Economic and Social Cohesion and Regional Policy: A Review of the Literature; Gabriele Tondl 11. Pensions and European integration; Heikki Oksanen References