Article 2 of the Treaty of Rome describes the task of the European Community as to encourage stability and growth "by establishing a Common Market and by progressively approximating the economic policies of Member States".

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...

No doubt the monetary measures taken by the Government of the Federal Republic on May 10 have caused quite a stir. The question is: Can the European economic and monetary union still be achieved, in spite of the German measures?

The Council of Ministers of the European CommunIties decided on March 30, 1971, to put into effect on July 1, 1971, a system of general tariff preferences favouring the exports of manufactures and semimanufactures from developing countries. By taking this decision the European Communities have...

The union of the six states of the EEC has brought the largest trading power of the world into being in Europe. Its pesltion will be strengthened further by the accession of Great Britain and other states. The author, who is a Vice-President of the Commission of the European Communities,...

For many years, the guardians of the world's currency system have tried to cure the symptoms of its illness. They were not even altogether unsuccessful in their attempts to maintain the system of Bretton Woods. But its shortcomings are still conspicuous. One crisis after another occurs, and the...