These essays expound with great clarity some important lessons to be learned from the uniting Europe over the past half century. Tomasso Padoa-Schioppa, drawing on his broad knowledge of European history, politics, economics and culture as well as his deep experience of European and international co-operation, analyses a number of the fundamental relationships involved: between the member states and the European Union, and between Britain and the Union in particular; between national cultural heritages and the making of Europe; between economics and the politics and institutions; and between European integration and the proocess of globalisation. He shows both extraordinary achievements of this adventure and the contradictions and incompletness that still characterise it.
Tomasso Padoa-Schioppa, drawing on his broad knowledge of European history, politics, economics and culture as well as his deep experience of European and international co-operation, analyses a number of the fundamental relationships involved: between the member states and the European Union, and between Britain and the Union in particular; between national cultural heritages and the making of Europe; between economics and the politics and institutions; and between European integration and the proocess of globalisation.

Translated by: Claudia Ferrari