Daniela Preda Livres

Analysis of the formation and development of the consensus on European integration provides an interesting interpretative perspective for studying the history of the construction of a united Europe. The authors of this volume examine the main reasons - ideological, political, cultural and economic - that have been advanced to encourage citizens to support the European project. The contributors also consider the initiatives proposed by the political and institutional actors involved for promoting this supranational project. L'analyse de la formation et du développement d'un consensus pour l'intégration européenne représente une piste interprétative intéressante pour étudier l'histoire de la construction de l'Europe unie. Dans ce volume, les auteurs examinent les principales raisons avancées - idéales, politiques, culturelles, économiques - pour obtenir le soutien des citoyens au projet européen. En outre, ils analysent les initiatives élaborées par les acteurs politiques et institutionnels impliqués dans le processus d'unification dans le but de promouvoir le projet supranational.

The book reconstructs the long road toward a European single currency: the first monetary unification projects in the '50s and '60s; the turbulence of the '70s; the EMS; the causes of the 1992 crisis; the long struggle for the Monetary Union, which would end at Maastricht. Finally, it focuses on the creation of the Eurozone and its recent crisis.

This book aims at reconstructing De Gasperi's Europeanism from the years of the cultural and political formation of the statesman from Trentino in the Habsburg Empire and in the multinational Parliament in Vienna to his resolute and passionate activities for the political unification of Europe.

Proceedings of conference "The Road Europe Travelled Along--The Evolution of the EEC/EU Institutions and Policies," which was held at the University of Siena on the 23rd and 24th of May, 2008.