Economic Planning and Policies in Britain, France and Germany and Planning in the EEC: The Medium-Term Economic Policy Programme of the European Economic Community

1969 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 721-722
Author(s):  
A. G. Ford
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
European Economic Community ◽  
Economic Planning ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
Medium Term ◽  
European Economic

The Nordic and the Continental European Dimensions in Scandinavian Integration: NORDEK as a Case Study

1971 ◽  
Vol 6 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 173-181
Author(s):  
Gunnar P. Nielsson
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
European Integration ◽  
European Economic Community ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
European Economic ◽  
European Model ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
The University

This paper was delivered at the University of Aberdeen's conference on ‘Scandinavia and European Integration’ in March, 1971. There are four sections, the first of which is a chronological review of the Nordek case. Secondly, an analysis of the Nordek Draft Treaty provisions shows that the treaty represents the most far-reaching step in regard to the integration of social and economic policy spheres yet considered in Scandinavia. Thirdly, the key factor in explaining the collapse of the Nordek plan is the increasing penetration of European ‘high politics' into Nordic cooperative arrangements. Political stalemate concerning expanded membership of the European Economic Community favored Nordek. That stalemate was broken after de Gaulle's political demise. The changed conditions brought into sharp relief the incompatibility of Finland's neutrality policy with participation in a Nordek which would include such potential EEC members as Denmark and Norway. Finally, future prospects are examined through the construction of four basic choices presented as models. The Greater European model and the Divided Scandinavia model contain the international dimensions of the dilemma presently facing the Scandinavians.

Programming the Common Market: The Making and Failure of a ‘Dirigiste’ Europe, 1957–1967

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Hugo Canihac
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
European Economic Community ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Practical Reasons ◽  
Economic Governance ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
European Economic ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common

This article contributes to the debate about the history of the political economy of the European Economic Community (EEC). It retraces the efforts during the early years of the EEC to implement a form of ‘European economic programming’, that is, a more ‘dirigiste’ type of economic governance than is usually associated with European integration. Based on a variety of archives, it offers a new account of the making and failure of this project. It argues that, at the time, the idea of economic programming found many supporters, but its implementation largely failed for political as well as practical reasons. In so doing, it also brings to light the role of economists during the early years of European integration.

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