The European summit in Dublin has shown that any further European integration will be determined in great measure by agreement on the financing of future Community budgets and by the EC’s expenditure policy. This article shows how the political controversy about the Community’s budget...

The economic aims mentioned in Article 2 of the EEC-Treaty may be summarised in the formula: "expansion and stability". The author discusses in the following the effectiveness of the major strategies applied by the EEC within the framework of its integration policy, i.e. integration through...