creditworthiness and European integration -- Still the 'old' Europe? historical legacies and long-term political challenges -- The … Achilles heel of post-war European integration : endogenous preference formation and the boundaries of creditor-state power …

This paper discusses the process of European institutional integration from a political-economy perspective, linking … integration and disintegration. First, we introduce the fundamental trade-off between economies of scale associated with larger … implications of the trade-off for European integration. Second, we describe the two main political theories of European integration …