The book reveals that European product market integration has a significant impact on the conditions of competition, the strategies of companies and the structure of industry. It adds a quarter of a percentage to annual GDP growth rates and has not led to an increased exposure of the EU to...

1. Introduction -- 2. Some Introductory Thoughts -- Part I. The European “Postwar Consensus” and the European Project -- 3. The Origins of the Idea of European Integration: A German Perspective -- 4. The European “Postwar Consensus” and the Birth of the EEC -- 5 “Large Switzerland”...

Was the European Union ever a liberal dream? How did the common market impact the liberalization in its member states? Has the EU fostered more or less economic freedom in the Old Continent? This book explores the intellectual and political genesis of the European Union, focusing especially on...

Reconstruction, reconciliation, and integration, 1945-1957 -- Uncertain terrain, 1958-1972 -- A community in flux, 1973-1984 -- From European Community to European Union, 1985-1992 -- The emergent European Union, 1993-1999 -- The unsettled European Union, 2000-2010 -- The commission -- The...