The embryonically conceived vision for a free Europe as an inevitable premise to strengthen the modern civilization has been deeply rooted in the European unification as a powerful historical urge, deriving from the structural and irreversible crisis of European nation-states. The unification of...

What did classical liberal thinkers contribute to the theoretical underpinnings of the European unification project? This paper examines works by Luigi Einaudi, Friedrich A. von Hayek and Wilhelm Röpke, attempting to understand to what extent the nineteenth-century pacifist tradition of...

Comparing the economic development and current situation of the internal markets of the U.S. and the EU, two things are noticeable. On the one hand, the EU is conducting massive regional policy programmes (notably the Structural Funds) to foster economic cohesion among the 27 nations belonging...