The enlargement of the European Union towards the East from May 2004 has generated an increase of about 100 million inhabitants in the EU population, and has especially brought along major challenges and important opportunities both for the "new" countries and for the "old" member states. That...

With the need to handle persisting problems and conflicts from the past while coping with new economic and political structures, Southeast Europe proves to be a challenging yet fruitful testing ground for establishing a long-term process of social and economic integration. This volume provides a...

This newly revised and updated second edition is the classic economic and political account of the origins of the European Community. On one level it is an original analysis of the forces which brought the EC together, on another it is an explanation based on historical analysis of the future...

This book presents a review of the South American integration process in a global context, with the main factors of success and failure, by comparing it with the European Union development. It also presents South American integration in a regional context; with its subregional pacts and the...

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 /...