Redefining European Economic Integration

An innovative, bipartisan and comprehensive account of why European economic integration has been in disarray and how to fix it.

Dariusz Adamski (Author)

9781108421423, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 19 April 2018

512 pages
23.5 x 15.8 x 2.6 cm, 0.93 kg

'An important and sophisticated contribution to the debate about attempts at policy coordination and integration in the European setting, that has important implications for how we interpret globalization and backlashes against integration and globalization.' Harold James, Claude and Lore Kelly Professor of European Studies, Professor of History and International Affairs, Princeton University, New Jersey

European economic integration has relied on policies intended to make the European Union strong and resilient economically, socially and politically. The Eurozone crisis and Brexit have demonstrated, however, how fragile this hope was and how contested reforms to the major European economic policies have become. Dariusz Adamski explains the evolution of these policies - from the Economic and Monetary Union to the internal market, international trade, the EU's climate policy, as well as its redistributive policies - and demonstrates how this evolution has made European economic integration increasingly frail. He shows how erroneous economic and political assumptions regarding the direction of the European integration project have interplayed with the EU's constitutional context. Arguing that flaws in individual policies contributing to European economic integration can be remedied in compliance with the existing constitutional setup, he explains why such solutions would be economically beneficial and politically feasible.

Series editors' preface
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
Table of treaties, instruments and legislation
Table of cases
1. The Eurozone's original sins
2. Dead rules walking
3. Thirty pieces of silver in exchange for sovereignty?
4. The Frankfurt alchemist
5. Shock absorbers
6. Redenomination
7. Centrifugal national institutions and public policies
8. European redistributive policies: grass-sprinkling instead of rebuilding the garden
9. The internal market: disunited in diversity
10. The EU and the hidden costs of maximum globalisation
Summary: rerouting the European project
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: International law [LB], Law [L], Economics [KC]