European Integration: From the Common Market to the Single Market

2009 ◽  
pp. 133-150
Author(s):  
Desmond Dinan
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
Single Market ◽  
Common Market ◽  
The Common

The Beyen Plan (1951-1954)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathieu Segers
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
Foreign Minister ◽  
Common Market ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Dutch Government ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Hague ◽  
Alliance Building ◽  
European Defence Community

The rapid expansion of European integration after 1950 triggered lasting existential unease in The Hague, fuelling fierce Dutch revisionism. Alliance-building with supporters of Atlantic free trade remained a priority, and swift British (and Scandinavian) accession to the ‘Small Europe’ of the Six was seen as essential. The Dutch government had therefore been very sceptical about the proposed European Defence Community (EDC); after this failed in 1954, Dutch policymakers feared new negotiations for a relance européenne would strengthen Small Europe and its built-in traditions of politicisation and dirigisme. Ironically, the Common Market – proposed by Dutch Foreign Minister Johan Willem Beyen, and eventually enormously profitable for the Dutch export economy – was considered a ruse when it was presented in the Hague.

scholarly journals The Political Economy of Europe since 1945 A Kaleckian Perspective

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Halevi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
European Integration ◽  
The United States ◽  
Common Market ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Great Power ◽  
The Political ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
The Common

This paper analyzes the early stages of the formation of the Common Market. The period covered runs from the end of WW2 to 1959, which is the year in which the European Payments Union ceased to operate. The essay begins by highlighting the differences between the prewar political economy of Europe and the new dimensions and institutions brought in by the United States after 1945. It focuses on the marginalization of Britain and on the relaunching of French great power ambitions and how the latter determined, in a very problematical way, the European complexion of France. Because of France’s imperial aspirations, France, not West Germany, emerged as the politically crisis prone country of Europe acting as a factor of instability thereby jeopardizing the process of European integration, Among the large European nations, Germany and Italy appear, for opposite economic reasons, as the countries most focused on furthering integration. Germany expressed the strongest form of neomercantilism while Italy the weakest.

Structural Vulnerabilities of the Transnational Sphere

2019 ◽  
pp. 40-63
Author(s):  
Jonathan White
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
Common Market ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Action Coordination ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Institutional Field ◽  
The 1950S

Since its origins in the 1950s, European integration has entailed the creation of institutions whose rationale is to advance and maintain certain policy ends, notably the ‘four freedoms’ of the common market. As this chapter argues, the effect is that policy commitments have tended to be privileged over procedural arrangements. Rather than self-standing entities that can be put to different ends, broadly on the model of the modern state, one sees institutions evolving with the policies, and liable to be side-stepped should they fail to serve those ends. A non-hierarchical constitutional structure does little to inhibit these restructurings, indeed arguably gives further encouragement. The ideas and practices of emergency become ways to galvanize action, coordination, and innovation across a diverse and potentially recalcitrant institutional field.

Around Cologne cathedral (1954-1957)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathieu Segers
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
European Economic Community ◽  
Common Market ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
European Economic ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Hague ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Cologne Cathedral

Dutch unease with European integration refused to go away. The Common Market – the single most important project in the history of European integration – excluded the UK and therefore the Anglo-Saxon connection so desired by the Dutch. Moreover, kindred spirits like West Germany’s Ludwig Erhard had been outmanoeuvred: during the crucial phase of negotiations for the Rome Treaties, Chancellor Adenauer decided that Franco-German friendship must be prioritised over economic calculations, given the tense international situation (marked by escalating violence in Suez and Hungary and resurgent nationalism ahead of the Saar referendum). Events caught The Hague by surprise once again: behind the scenes, the signing of the Treaties of Rome on the European Economic Community in March 1957 received a lukewarm welcome.

Salazar, London and the Process of European Integration up until the Signing of the Treaty of Rome

2018 ◽  
pp. 265-293
Author(s):  
António Lopes
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
Free Trade Area ◽  
Common Market ◽  
The Political ◽  
Customs Union ◽  
Economic Potential ◽  
The Third ◽  
Trade Area ◽  
Treaty Of Rome ◽  
The Common

This article aims to shed some light on the political and ideological agendas of both London and Lisbon during the process leading up to the signing of the Treaty of Rome, on 25 March 1957. It focuses on four main questions. The frst one is on how the colonial issue still influenced their attitudes towards the process of European integration. The second one explores how the risks of isolation conditioned their understanding of the commercial and economic potential of a European common market. The third question addresses their inability to identify themselves with the principles and values of the European project. The fourth one seeks to ascertain the views exchanged between the British and Portuguese governments on issues such as the customs union, the common market and the free trade area.

European integration and the integration of the world economy

1977 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-69
Author(s):  
Hugh Corbet
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
European Community ◽  
World Economy ◽  
The State ◽  
Common Market ◽  
Turn On ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Moment

When it became Britain's turn on 1 January 1977 to fill the presidency of the European Community for six months, it should have been the moment she had been waiting for, so long had been the struggle to join the Common Market in the first place. Much depended on how Britain filled the role. How much might be implicit at the end of this discussion of the state of the world economy as it approaches the 1980s. The world economy is in a serious malaise, but the malaise in the European Community has been of longer duration.

The Common Market of Political Parties

1971 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 448-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Vredeling
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
European Integration ◽  
European Community ◽  
Common Market ◽  
The Political ◽  
Customs Union ◽  
External Trade ◽  
The Common ◽  
Common Policy

A CURIOUS PHENOMENON MAY BE NOTED WITHIN THE EUROPEAN Community, and also in the negotiations on the entry of other European countries into it. This is the absence of any move towards European integration among the political parties in the member states. Rather surprisingly, an obstinate silence prevails in Europe and within the national political parties regarding this deficiency. One cannot help wondering what is the reason for this and what can be done to break this silence.Outwardly the process of European integration presents in the main an economic aspect. The EEC Treaty is a classic example of this. The goal striven for is a customs union with a common policy in the economic sphere. Thus the first steps are being taken in the Community towards a common policy in a number of sectors (agriculture, transport, energy, external trade). Recently attempts have been made to link this sector-by-sector policy through the inauguration of a common economic and monetary policy.

scholarly journals Causes, Origins and Possible Effects of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC)

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Pawel Mariusz Pasierbiak
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Single Market ◽  
Common Market ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
Market Creation ◽  
The Common ◽  
Asean Economic Community

In 2007, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) at its 13th summit decided to create the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC). In assumptions, the common market was to be established by the end of 2015, and the introduction of free movement of goods, services, capital and skilled labor was to lead to an increase in the degree of market integration among member states. But the creation of a single market is not an easy process, as illustrated by the case of the European Community/European Union, where a process of single market creation has been implemented slowly and with numerous difficulties. On the other hand, if the process of a common market creation is successful, the integration brings benefits to the participating countries. The primary goal of this article is to indicate potential effects as well as to show the progress of the implementation and functioning of the common market in the ASEAN Economic Community. To achieve the objective, the author will analyze the theoretical implications of a common market and the real implications, taking the European Union as an example. Having done this part of the analysis, the author will try to indicate and evaluate the possible effects of the process of the common market creation in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

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