Main Economic Policy Areas of the EEC

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. The Common Agricultural Policy Key to European Economic Integration

   • P. C. van den Noort

   Pages 1-26

3. Industrial Policies and the Community

   • Alexis Jacquemin

   Pages 27-58

4. Fiscal Policy

   • A. R. Prest

   Pages 59-90

5. Regional Policy

   • Willem Molle

   Pages 91-116

6. Trade and Monetary Policies

   • Peter Coffey

   Pages 117-160

7. Back Matter

   Pages 161-168

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by Peter Coffey This is indeed a most opportune time for the publication of a serious, critical and independent study about the "Main Economic Policy Areas of the EEC". The European Economic Community is the world's most import­ ant commercial and trading bloc and its economic policies consequently have the most far-reaching implications for all countries in the world. The rest of the world is acutely conscious of the Community's trading policies. In turn, these policies (apart from those based on historical links - ante­ cedent to the EEC's formation) are strongly influenced by the internal economic policies of the Common Market - especially by the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). At the present time, the Community finds itself, both in­ ternally and externally, at a crossroads. This crossroads takes the form of a choice between 'protectionism' or 'open­ ness'. Unfortunately, present evidence suggests that currently and in the immediately foreseeable future the former option has been chosen by the EEC.

• economic policy

• Europa Institute, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  Peter Coffey

Peter Coffey, a British national was until recently, Head of the Economics section at the Europa Instituut, University of Amsterdam. Presently he is Holder of the recently created U.S. West Chair at the Graduate School at the College of St. Thomas, Minnesota, USA. He has published many works on European and international economic and monetary problems. Professor Coffey, who speaks seven languages, has lectured in most countries of the EC, as well as in many other parts of the world.

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