Inhalt: 1. Die historische Ausgangslage (Weidenfeld, Werner: Europa - aber wo liegt es? - Schulze, Hagen: Nation und Nationalstaat im Wandel) . - 2. Die Staatenwelt in Europa (Woyke, Wichard: Belgien, die Niederlande und Luxemburg. - Gros, Jürgen: Bundesrepublik Deutschland. - Menudier, Henri:...

History -- West european economic integration since 1950 (Nicholas Crafts) -- The history of European Economic and Monetary Union (Harold James) -- History of economic thought and policy-making at the European Commission (Ivo Maes) -- The single market and the euro -- The economics of the single...

Reconstruction, reconciliation, and integration, 1945-1957 -- Uncertain terrain, 1958-1972 -- A community in flux, 1973-1984 -- From European Community to European Union, 1985-1992 -- The emergent European Union, 1993-1999 -- The unsettled European Union, 2000-2010 -- The commission -- The...