Europe and the Future of Economic Governance*
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چکیده
The Journal of Common Market Studies, it seems to me, has always rather revelled, in a very British way, in having an out-of-date title. As they used to say, a well-dressed man is always at least ten years behind the latest fashion. Of course, JCMS does not need to worry about that – everyone knows who you are. But you are lucky that you are not called the ‘Journal of Coal and Steel Community Studies’, frankly speaking; or the ‘Journal of European Defence Community Studies’, although that wheel may yet come full circle. And at least you have resisted the blandishments of image-makers who might have reduced you to the poverty of ‘European Union Institutional Reflections Monthly’. In any event, I am pleased to have the opportunity to share some reflections on the future of economic governance, based on my own experience as EU Trade Commissioner and considering Europe as a possible model for emulation elsewhere, in the pages of JCMS. Some of my past writings on economic governance have provoked controversy, particularly in my own country (Lamy, 2002b; Lamy and Pisani-Ferry, 2002), but also in the English-speaking world (Lamy, 2002a). Yet, it seems uncontroversial to view economic governance as being fundamentally about
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