Author Stephen Romer
Published June 2004
ISBN: 978-0-907529-88-0
Price £35 (photocopiable)
The EU is changing at a rapid rate. This new book looks at some of the most important questions concerning the EU at the present time. Stephen Romer is the author of Understanding the European Union which has sold over 12,000 copies and has now produced this photocopiable resource to accompany the book.
The topics include:
• Are EU policies good for the member states, but bad for the rest of the world?
• Why is the Single European Market taking so long to complete?
• Does EU competition policy act as a deterrent to investment?
• How effectively has regional and social inequality been addressed in the EU?
• Has the Common Agricultural Policy outlived its usefulness?
• Is the EU budget in need of an overhaul?
• Does the record of the European Central Bank inspire confidence?
• Why is EU macroeconomic performance poorer than that of the UK?
• Does the UK need to join the euro?
• Why is enlargement of the EU so fraught with difficulties?
