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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 341.2422 EAN: 9780826480149 Edition: 2 Rev Upd ISBN: 0826480144 Label: Continuum International Publishing Group Manufacturer: Continuum International Publishing Group Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 643 Publication Date: December 30, 2005 Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Studio: Continuum International Publishing Group Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Well researched but too selectively reportedA 600+ page, heavily footnoted polemic against the European Union, and particularly Britain's EU membership. While I share the authors' general view about the EU, I found the book ultimately unconvincing. Part of the problem is just that there's too much of the negative here. The way the authors tell it, there are seemingly no benefits whatsoever to Britain being part of the EU - and that's just not credible. Britain must be getting something out of it (even if not enough, on balance) ... Read More Rating:  - One of the best books ever written on the EUThis is a new edition of the authors' 2003 classic history of the European Union from its origins immediately after the First World War to the present. They show that the EU is not about sharing or cooperation between sovereign governments. It is not inter-governmental, but supranational. The dividing line is the veto: where there are vetoes, there is still inter-governmentalism, still independent, sovereign nations; with vetoes gone, there is only a new, supranational form of ... Read More 
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