Before and Beyond European Monetary Union
Subtitle: Historical Lessons and Future Prospects (Routledge Studies in Theeuropean Economy, 35)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: September 20, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780415282710
First sentence: Although the roots of European integration can be traced back to the theories of Jean Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant and Victor Hugo, and to the military dreams of Charlemagne, Napoleon, and Hitler, it was the devastation experienced in Europe between 1919 and 1945 that gave the push for unity a new urgency and a new legitimacy.