Publisher's Synopsis
This book is concerned with the future shape of Europe in the post 1992, post Maastricht era. The Community has been using the single market programme and the Maastricht treaty as a means of deflecting, or at least delaying dealing with, the attentions of its immediate neighbours. The various initiatives that have been undertaken - the "European Economic Area" with EFTA, the "Europe agreements" with Poland, Hungary and Czecho/Slovakia and the "redirection" of the EC's Mediterranean policy - have provided only partial and temporary responses. The fundamental issue of where the boundary of the European Community should end remains to be settled. In this book, the authors provide an examination of the underlying issues and the current "state of play" regarding likely future enlargement of the EC, and consider each of the principal, actual, or potential applicant countries in turn.
