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European Integration: A View from Spatial Economics

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Regional Integration in East Asia

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Europe’s integration project has now been running for half a century. From the original six members in 1957 it has been through successive enlargements, taking it up to 25 members and 450 million people in 2004. The 1957 Treaty of Rome established the four freedoms — free mobility of goods, services, capital and labour — and these basic principles have been augmented by institution building and by the deepening of integration, most notably with the Single Market Programme of the early 1990s and by more recent monetary union. The project has been enormously successful, both in economic and political terms, although there have been frequent tensions and undoubted failures.

This chapter is based on a paper prepared for ‘Globalization and Regional Integration: From the viewpoint of spatial economics’, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization, Tokyo, 2 December 2004. Thanks to Martin Stewart and Holger Breinlich for research assistance.

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Venables, A.J. (2007). European Integration: A View from Spatial Economics. In: Fujita, M. (eds) Regional Integration in East Asia. IDE-JETRO Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230626607_3

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