Bootle, Roger., <br/><br/>
The trouble with Europe :  why the EU isn't working how it can be reformed what could take its place / 
Roger Bootle. 
 - viii, 216 p. :  ill. maps ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-210) and index. 
<br/><br/> After the carnage of two world wars, and the polarization of the globe between the emergent superpowers, Europe's leaders had a noble dream of founding a new union that would contain its members destructive tendencies, but also act as a beacon of free trade, human rights and cooperation. As this organization attracted new countries, including Britain in the 1970s, the European Economic Community eventually became the European Union, and a seemingly inevitable march toward a federal super-state began, culminating in the creation of the totemic, but economically suspect single currency: the euro. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781857886153 1857886151 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>European Union.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>337.142