Mapping European Economic Integration

By examining the various policy subfields of European economic integration such as agriculture, trade, banking, economic governance and sustainability this book offers a comprehensive and wide-ranging analysis of developments that have taken place in the past five years aimed at exploring the path of economic integration in Europe.

Fills a gap in the market as the first book to deal with the Political Economy of the EU at the level of scholarly research, the majority of books in the field are textbooks

List of Tables and Graphs Foreword Preface Acknowledgements Biographies List of Abbreviations 1. Introduction; Amy Verdun and Alfred Tovias 2. EU Agricultural Policies and European Integration: A Thematic Review of the Literature; Tim Josling and Alan Swinbank 3. Trade Policy; Peter Holmes and Alfred Tovias 4. EU Competition Policy From an Economic Perspective: Shaping Policy or Shaped by Policy?; Peter Holmes and Beatrice Dumont 5. The Economics of Single Market Regulation; Jacques Pelkmans 6. European Financial Market Integration; Paul Schure 7. Governance in the Euro Area - Approaching an Optimum Currency Area?; Niels Thygesen 8. Economic Governance and Sustainability; Annette Bongardt and Francisco Torres 9. EU Enlargement and Theories of Economic Integration; Susan Senior Nello 10. Economic and Social Cohesion and Regional Policy: A Review of the Literature; Gabriele Tondl 11. Pensions and European integration; Heikki Oksanen References