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'One market, one law, one money?': unintended consequences of EMU, enlargement, and eurocentricity

Majone, Giandomenico (2007) 'One market, one law, one money?': unintended consequences of EMU, enlargement, and eurocentricity. LSE law, society and economy working papers (01-2007). Department of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

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Abstract

A Union of twenty-seven, or more, members at vastly different levels of socioeconomic development must be considered a mutant of the old EU-15, not to mention the original EEC. The mutation pressures to which the EU is exposed today are to a large extent the unanticipated consequences of the application of the old integration methods under radically new conditions. Thus EMU, instead of making the integration process irreversible, has split the Union into two, possibly three, camps. On the other hand, the heterogeneity of EU-27 impedes the establishment of a Single Market for services. Many of the same people who opposed the original (Bolkestein) General Services Directive also maintain that the EU should be much more than a free-trade area. With the services sector – more than two-thirds of the economy – still largely regulated at the national level, however, it can no longer be excluded that the enlarged EU may regress, if not to the stage of a free-trade area, then to a customs union, with some elements of a common market for goods. It seems likely that the EU will no longer follow a straight-line evolution, rather a kind of evolution with many side branches. It is suggested that the economic theory of clubs provides a better theoretical framework for understanding such developments than the received conceptualizations.

Item Type: Monograph (Working Paper)
Official URL: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/law/wps/wps1.htm
Additional Information: © 2007 The Author
Divisions: Law
Subjects: J Political Science > JX International law
Date Deposited: 29 Jul 2009 12:56
Last Modified: 15 Sep 2023 23:09
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/24653

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