The costs of Europe: Why do small economically peripheral economies join Europe?

Emer O’Hagan

Chapter 1 in Employee relations in the periphery of Europe, 2002, pp 6-33 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In its infancy, it was crudely believed that the European Union (EU) would produce a convergence among its members towards a highly developed industrial society, with all the optimistic baggage which that entailed, such as internationally competitive enterprises, generous welfare and policy-making embedded in practices of ‘social dialogue’.1 In the 1960s when the ‘golden age’ was in full swing and the EU, then the EEC,2 was a relatively small and economically compatible group of member states, this view had some merit. But when the economic climate began to cool down in the 1970s and the EU was enlarged to incorporate less-advantaged countries like Ireland, Spain and Portugal, it became less compelling.

Keywords: European Union; Member State; Foreign Direct Investment; Social Cohesion; Industrial Relation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230512399_2

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