Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Ideas about Europe
  • Theories of European integration
  • The first European Community, the European Steel and Coal Community
  • The European defence community and the European political community : crisis in the process
  • The Treaty of Rome : EEC and euratom 1957
  • The common trade policy
  • The common agricultural policy
  • De Gaulle and European integration
  • The British position towards European integration : a different economic approach
  • The enlargement to Greece and the case of Greenland
  • The accession of Spain and Portugal
  • Thatcher and the EU
  • The single European act
  • The European Commission
  • The European Parliament
  • The European Council and the Council of the EU
  • Other institutions
  • Enlargement to Sweden, Austria, and Finland
  • The treaties of Maastricht, Amsterdam, and Nice
  • Helmut Kohl and the European union
  • European Union law
  • European budget
  • Regional policy
  • The enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe
  • Treaty of lisbon
  • Future enlargements of the eu and limits of the union
  • European identity
  • The monetary union and the current crisis of the euro
  • Social Europe
  • Environmental protection
  • Transport policy
  • Energy policy
  • External influence of the EU and common foreign and security policy
  • The future of the European Union
  • Index.