The Eurosceptical Reader 2 de M. Holmes

The Eurosceptical Reader 2

M. Holmes

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 noi 2001

Europe is the biggest political issue in contemporary Britain. The contributions to this volume all express disapproval and doubt about the integration process. Some favour EU membership while rejecting the single currency; others favour renegotiation of Britain's relationship with the EU; others recommend withdrawal. But different preferred solutions do not obscure a commonality of belief that the status quo of EU membership, leading inexorably to a monetary and fiscal euroland, is undesirable and should be democratically resisted. Similarly Tony Blair's advocacy of a 'superpower' Europe is conceptually repudiated.

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List of Tables List of Figures List of Maps Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction; M.Holmes PART I: ECONOMIC EUROSCEPTICISM British Influence and the Euro; J.Coles The Euro and Regional Divergence in Europe; T.Thirlwall British Trade and Europe since the 1960s; M.Holmes The UK and Euroland: Ships that Pass in the Night; G.Leach Euroland and NAFTA Compared; K.Marsden The Bank that Rules Europe; M.Baimbridge, B. Burkitt & P.Whyman Has the Euro Lived up to Expectations?; W.Nölling PART II: POLITICAL EUROSCEPTICISM The Myth of Europe; R.Lewis Britain, Europe and the United States; O.Wright Can Self-government Survive?; N.Johnson Separate Ways; Lord Shore of Stepney Nice and Beyond: the Parting of the Ways; C.Brooker Aiming for the Heart of Europe: A Misguided Venture; J.Bercow Index

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MARK BAIMBRIDGE Lecturer in Economics, University of Bradford JOHN BERCOW Member of ParliamentCHRISTOPHER BROOKER Journalist, Sunday TelegraphBRIAN BURKITT Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of BradfordSIR JOHN COLES Former private secretary to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and until 1997 Head of the British Diplomatic Service and permanent Under-Secretary of the Foreign OfficeNEVIL JOHNSON Emeritus Fellow, Nuffield College, OxfordGRAEME LEACH Chief Economist, Institute of DirectorsRUSSELL LEWIS Leader Writer, Daily Mail, Director of the Bow Group, and General Director, Institute of Economic AffairsKEITH MARSDEN Economic Consultant, GenevaWILHELM NÖLLING Lecturer, Economics Department, University of HamburgPETER SHORE Lord Shore of StepneyANTHONY THIRLWALL Professor of Applied Economics, University of Kent, CanterburyPHILIP WHYMAN Lecturer in Economics, University of Central LancashireSIR OLIVER WRIGHT, GCMG, GCVO, DSC Retired, formerly with the Diplomatic Service