- 2000/118 pages
The Case for Europe:
Unity, Diversity, and Democracy in the European Union
Hardcover: $39.95
ISBN: 978-1-55587-898-6
Paperback: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-55587-900-6
The Case for Europe sets out the basic rationales and characteristics of the process of European integration that we have been witnessing for half a century. Philippe de Schoutheete, for ten years Belgium's permanent representative to the European Union, demystifies the structures of the EU, the basic forces and reasons that make it work, and the strengths and weaknesses of what has been achieved. He also points to the difficult questions the Union now faces: When to act? How best (and whether) to project power? How to respect diversity and reconcile competition and solidarity?
De Schoutheete does not offer simple answers to these questions. But his penetrating analysis looks beyond the facade of institutions and the mountains of paper they produce to illuminate fundamental issues.
