In the debate for and against European integration economists had an important part in so far as from the beginning European integration took on an essentially economic connotation. Among them Francois Perroux had a rather original position: he based his critique of European economic integration...

Introduction / Marie Cremona -- Services for general economic interest : European law's impact on the role of markets and of member states / Heike Schweitzer -- Universal services : nucleus for a social European private law / Hans-W Micklitz -- The concept of state aid in liberalized sectors /...