1 'Integration à la Carte' The Primacy of Politics and the Economic Integration of Western Europe in the 1950s --; 2 Europe's First Constitution: The European Political Community, 1952-1954 --; 3 EC Regional Policy and the Evolution of the Structural Funds --; 4 Economic and Social Cohesion in the 1990's --; 5 The Institutional Dynamics of European Integration: From the Single Act to the Maastricht Treaty --; 6 The New Germany and European Union after Maastricht: The Difficult Way Ahead --; 7 The European Community and Central and Eastern Europe --; 8 The Impact of Systemic Transition on the European Community --; 9 Sources of European Administrative Law --; 10 Soft Law and Institutional Practice in the European Community --; 11 Women and the Law: In Search of an Ever-Evasive Equality --; 12 Price Leadership and Conscious Parallelism --; Appendix A Emile Noël's Contribution to Europe --; Klaus Meyer --; Appendix B Merci, Monsieur Noël --; Marcello Buzzonetti.
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The Construction of Europe contains a multidisciplinary treatment of the development of the European Union. Special attention is given to the political economy of European unification, including precursors of the EEC, the role of French--German relations, the Structural Funds, and the part played by the European Commission. There are also discussions of the implications for Europe of German reunification and the prospects raised by the possibility of expansion into Eastern Europe. The legal structure of the European Community is also examined, in contributions that deal with administrative law, guidelines, competition law, and feminist legal theory.