Quaglia, Lucia; Maes, Ivo - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), … - 2003
This work compares France and Italy's policies on European monetary integration from the early 1970s arguing that the … very different state structures determined the different policies pursued towards European monetary integration. France is … integration. Italy, in contrast, is characterised by an 'archipelago' configuration with weak political capacity, which resulted …