The Monnet Method and the Obsolescence of the EU

John R. Gillingham ()
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John R. Gillingham: University of Missouri–St. Louis

Chapter Chapter 7 in The Liberal Heart of Europe, 2021, pp 81-89 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The inception of “European integration” will forever be associated with the personage of Jean Monnet, but the obsolescence of the European Union (EU) has long been evident and no new design for it has been forthcoming since the foundation of the European Coal and Steel Community of 1952 and the European Economic Community of 1958. I will therefore examine how his lasting legacy subsequently developed into a rigid, centralizing mindset that now obstructs discussion not only of alternatives to the present EU (and European Monetary Union (EMU)) but of ways to reform it. By focusing on the 1956 British proposal for a nonpolitical Free Trade Area, I wish to retrieve the underlying original principles of the EU, from which a response to the challenges of the present and future can be drawn.

Keywords: Competition; Free Trade Area; Decentralization; Economic growth; Tariffs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-60368-7_7

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