While acknowledging the ability of the European Union to advance towards greater political and economic integration, this book questions the wisdom of the European "project." Economic and monetary union is a risky venture even for the convergent countries of the continent--let alone divergent Britain--as the uncertain birth of the Euro proves. Political union, moreover, remains an elite aspiration that weakens democratic accountability and lacks popular legitimacy. The likelihood is that the full scope of EU integration will also reveal profound limits.
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...thoughtful and intelligent...acute arguments here that are not often aired in the great British euro debate... Times Literary Supplement
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Martin Holmes is Lecturer in Politics and Director of the College of Business Administration, St. Hugh's College, Oxford.
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It is axiomatic to regard the Conservative Party as split from top to bottom on the issue of British membership of the European Union. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
single market process, integrationist project, federal integration, pean currency, tax harmonisation, existing currencies, etary union, optimal currency area, single currency Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, John Major, Bruges Group, Cold War, European Commission, United Kingdom, North America, Wall Street Journal, World War Two, Treaty of Rome, Common Agricultural Policy, Czech Republic, House of Commons, William Hague, Margaret Thatcher, Common Market, Michael Heseltine, Soviet Union, Norman Lamont, Adam Smith, Helmut Kohl, Bretton Woods, Christopher Booker, Harold Wilson, Jacques Delors New!
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It is axiomatic to regard the Conservative Party as split from top to bottom on the issue of British membership of the European Union. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
single market process, integrationist project, federal integration, pean currency, tax harmonisation, existing currencies, etary union, optimal currency area, single currency Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, John Major, Bruges Group, Cold War, European Commission, United Kingdom, North America, Wall Street Journal, World War Two, Treaty of Rome, Common Agricultural Policy, Czech Republic, House of Commons, William Hague, Margaret Thatcher, Common Market, Michael Heseltine, Soviet Union, Norman Lamont, Adam Smith, Helmut Kohl, Bretton Woods, Christopher Booker, Harold Wilson, Jacques Delors New!
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- The Eurosceptical Reader by Martin Holmes on page 49, page 69, and page 117
- European Union (Aspects of Britain) by Central Office of Information on page 140, and page 177
- The Economics of the Common Market (Pelican) by Dennis Swann on page 192, and page 193
- European Integration and Disintegration: East and West by Robert Bideleux on page 117, and page 194
- John Major: The Making of the Prime Minister by Bruce Anderson on page 27, and page 47
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