An Agenda for a Growing Europe: The Sapir Report

Over the past decade European economic integration has seen considerable institutional success, but the economic performance of the EU has been varied. While macroeconomic stability has improved and an emphasis on cohesion preserved, the EU economic system has not delivered satisfactory growth performance. This book is the report of a high-level group commissioned by the President of the European Commission to review the EU economic system and propose a blueprint for an economic system capable of delivering faster growth along with stability and cohesion. It assesses the EU s economic performance, examines the challenges facing the EU in the coming years, and presents a series of recommendations. The report views Europe's unsatisfactory growth performance during the last decades as a symptom of its failure to transform into an innovation-based economy. It has now become clear that the context in which economic policies have been developed has changed fundamentally over the past thirty years. A system built around the assimilation of existing technologies, mass production generating economics of scale, and an industrial structure dominated by large firms with stable markets and long term employment patterns no longer delivers in the world of today, characterized by economic globalization and strong external competition. What is needed now is more opportunity for new entrants, greater mobility of employees within and across firms, more retraining, greater reliance on market financing, and higher investment in both R&amp;D and higher education. This requires a massive and urgent change in economic policies in Europe.

Business & Money

Aghion, Philippe

Hellwig, Martin

Bertola, Giuseppe

Pisani-Ferry, Jean

Viñals, José

Wallace, Helen

Rosati, Dariusz

Economics

Oxford University Press

Based on the authors' own extensive research and long-standing interest in the Council and its workings, The Council of Ministers provides a comprehensive, up-to-date assessment of the formal and informal roles, functions and processes of the EU's chief decision-making body and the ways these have evolved over time. The book assesses the relationship of the Council to the other major EU institutions and with its member states, and examines the varying analyses, both explicit and implicit, of the Council as an institution and their implications for the future of European political integration.

The Council of Ministers (European Union)

Hayes-Renshaw, Fiona

Foreign & International Law

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Provides a critical analysis of the commitment to unifying Europe's domestic market by 1992, discussing the kind of common market which might be achieved and the economic benefits which might follow. This book should be of interest to students of politics and international relations.

Europe's Domestic Market (Chatham House Papers)

Pelkmans, Jacques

Winters, L. Alan

Council on Foreign Relations

Europe, the Challenge of Diversity (Chatham House Papers)

History

Ridley, Adam

Europe

Routledge

(Boosey &amp; Hawkes Scores/Books). A rare inside look at the evolution of the world's leading classical publisher and how it works with composers to shape music history. Rather than wage a price war, Leslie Boosey and Ralph Hawkes decided to merge their rival businesses in 1930. Signing Bartok and Strauss and investing in talented young composers like Britten and Copland, the company fully came of age with the acquisition of masterpieces by Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff, and Prokofiev. The 1980s saw a new flowering, with impressive signings in America and Europe, but not without internal struggles. Distinguished journalist and broadcaster Helen Wallace vividly charts the company's progress through boom years and unexpected financial threats, and reveals how artistic foresight has been balanced with commercial reality. "A surprisingly gripping narrative. For those who wonder what really goes on in music publishing, it offers a fascinating read." BBC Music Magazine

Boosey & Hawkes: The Publishing Story

Humor & Entertainment

Boosey + Hawkes

For years to come, the issue of enlargement - to the north and the east - is going to remain at the centre of debate over the future shape of the European Community. This book draws together a wide range of complex issues influencing European affairs and explains how they interact. Among the topics covered are the impact of the Maastricht Treaty on applicant countries; a discussion on the impact of the French and Danish referenda; the relationship between the EC and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) countries - Austria, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland; the relationship between the EC and Hungary, Poland and the Czech and Slovak Republic; and the way in which Cyprus, Malta and Turkey have pursued their applications for membership in the EC.

The European Community: The Challenge of Enlargement

Michalski, Anna

Brookings Inst Pr

The Sons of the Seigneur

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Kessinger Pub

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