EU Economic Governance and Globalization

Edited by the late Miriam L. Campanella, formerly Faculty of Political Science, University of Turin and Advisor to the Ministry of Economy, Rome, Italy and Sylvester Eijffinger, Professor of Economics, Tilburg University, the Netherlands and CEPR

It is through a gradual evolution, rather than by grand design, that the somewhat fragmented economic policies of the EU now appear to be heading towards a rather more robust and coherent economic governance. EU Economic Governance and Globalization considers the following crucial question as the EU enters its final stage of institution-building; will the economic institutions of the EU push ahead to reform its rigid national economies and open them up to globalization and international competition?