Table of Contents

List of Tables Preface and Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction The Single European Currency in National Perspective: A Community in Crisis?; B. H. Moss PART I: NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES Economic Consequences of EMU for Britain; J. Michie France: Economic and Monetary Union and the Social Divide; B. H. Moss Hoist With Its Own Petard: Consequences of the Single Currency for Germany; J. Huffschmid Italy Towards European Monetary Union (and Domestic Disunion); A. Simonazzi and F.Vianello State Intervention and the Question of European Integration in Spain; M. M. Lucio PART II: EUROPE IN CRISIS? Is the European Community Politically Neutral? The Free Market Agenda; B. H. Moss The Economic Limits of European Integration; J. Corcoran EMU and the Democratic Deficit; B. Morris Why 'Employability' Won't Make EMU Work; A. Robinson Index

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JOHN CORCORAN Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Sunderland JORG HUFFSCHMID Professor for Political Economy and Economic Policy, University of Bremen MIGUEL MARINEZ LUCIO Lecturer in Economics, University of Leeds BILL MORRIS General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU). ANDY ROBINSON Business Week's correspondent in Madrid and economic journalist on Spain's financial daily, Cinco Dias ANNAMARIA SIMONAZZI Lecturer in Economics, University of Rome, 'La Sapienza' FERNANDO VIANELLO Lecturer in Economics, University of Rome, 'La Sapienza'

About the Author

BERNARD H. MOSS is Professor of History associated with the Institute of European Studies in London who has written widely on modern and contemporary France. With an LLM from the London School of Economics, he has expanded his interests to the European Union. JONATHAN MICHIE is Sainsbury Professor of Management, Birkbeck College, University of London. He was previously at the Judge Institute of Management Studies, University of Cambridge, and before that worked in Brussels as an Expert to the European Commission. He has authored or edited more than 15 books, mostly on economic policy issues.

Reviews

'This is the best book yet on the Euro...By looking at the situation country by country it gives a clear and sharp assessment of the economic realities which Euro-enthusiasts try so hard to conceal.' - Austin Mitchell, MP 'Those who want to catch up with the way that ideas and opinions on the future of the EU are developing...ought to read this book.' - John Mills, Camden New Journal