European Integration and the Third World
Abstract
Project 1992 aims at removing the last obstacles to the free movement of people, services, goods and capital within the EC, hence constituting a substantial contribution to accelerating the process of European integration. It has captured Europe’s imagination and has galvanised economic activities and plans, generating a new ‘Europtimism’, after the stagnation of the 1970s and early 1980s, rightly labelled as the ‘Community’s dark age’ [Hoffman, 1989: 29]. During that period business leaders complained about the ‘costs of non-Europe’, that is, the negative impact of market segmentation on innovations and demonstrated also by European direct foreign investment (DFI) shifting towards the US.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Post-Communist Economic and Political Transition
European Union Policy and Governance
European Monetary and Fiscal Policies
Publication details
- Journal / source
- The 1992 Single European Market and the Third World
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Volume
- 86
- Pages
- 7–43
- Publication date
- 20 March 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter