The vision of the original arhitects of the European Community was to create a Europe of economic prosperity and social harmony. Economic integration has come ever closer, but sustained growth and a reduction in social disparities seen as far away as ever. This book examines the prospects for the real cohesion in Europe and find that, far from promroting it, many of the Community's current policies are divisive. The neo-liberal philosophy at the moment is producing policies which favour relatively wealthy regions and major corporations at the expense of less favoured regions and peoples.

List of Figure, List of Tables, The Contributors, Acknowledgements, INTRODUCTION: CONFLICT AND COHESION IN THE SINGLE EUROPEAN MARKET: A REFLECTION, Part I Macro-economic change, Part II Social cohesion, Part III Corporate restructuring, Part IV Towards cohesion, Index