These essays expound with great clarity some important lessons to be
learned from the uniting Europe over the past half century. Tomasso
Padoa-Schioppa, drawing on his broad knowledge of European history,
politics, economics and culture as well as his deep experience of
European and international co-operation, analyses a number of the
fundamental relationships involved: between the member states and the
European Union, and between Britain and the Union in particular; between
national cultural heritages and the making of Europe; between economics
and the politics and institutions; and between European integration and
the process of globalisation. He shows both extraordinary achievements
of this adventure and the contradictions and incompleteness that still
characterise it. Tomasso Padoa-Schioppa, drawing on his broad knowledge
of European history, politics, economics and culture as well as his deep
experience of European and international co-operation, analyses a number
of the fundamental relationships involved: between the member states and
the European Union, and between Britain and the Union in particular;
between national cultural heritages and the making of Europe; between
economics and the politics and institutions; and between European
integration and the process of globalisation.
