Design for a New Europe

by: John Gillingham (Author), Wang Yuanhe (Translator)

Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1st edition (27 April 2006)

Language: English

Print length: 300 pages

ISBN-10: 0521866944

ISBN-13: 9780521866941

Book Description

How did the process of European integration break down; how can it be repaired? In European Integration, 1950–2003, John Gillingham reviewed the history of the European project and predicted the rejection of the European constitution. Now the world’s leading expert on the EU maps out a route to save the Union. The four chapters of this penetrating, fiercely-argued and often witty book subject today’s dysfunctional European Union to critical scrutiny in an attempt to show how it is stunting economic growth, sapping the vitality of national govements, and undermining competitiveness. It explains how the attempt to revive the EU by tuing it into a champion of research and development will backfire and demonstrates how Europe’s great experiment in political and economic union can succeed only if the wave of liberal reform now under way in the historically downtrodden east is allowed to sweep away the prosperous and complacent west.