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Europe, a Civil Power: Lessons from EU Experience
Europe a Civil Power Lessons from EU Experience Author:Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa These essays expound with great clarity some important lessons to be learned from the uniting Europe over the past half century. Tomasso Padoa-Schioppa, drawing on his broad knowledge of European history, politics, economics and culture as well as his deep experience of European and international co-operation, analyses a number of the fundamenta... more »l relationships involved: between the member states and the European Union, and between Britain and the Union in particular; between national cultural heritages and the making of Europe; between economics and the politics and institutions; and between European integration and the process of globalisation. He shows both extraordinary achievements of this adventure and the contradictions and incompleteness that still characterise it. Tomasso Padoa-Schioppa, drawing on his broad knowledge of European history, politics, economics and culture as well as his deep experience of European and international co-operation, analyses a number of the fundamental relationships involved: between the member states and the European Union, and between Britain and the Union in particular; between national cultural heritages and the making of Europe; between economics and the politics and institutions; and between European integration and the process of globalisation.« less