Competitiveness and solidarity in the history of the European Union (1957-2017)

 

Laurent Warlouzet. Competitiveness and solidarity in the history of the European Union (1957-2017).Paolo Chiocchetti and Frédéric Allemand (eds.), Competitiveness and Solidarity in the EuropeanUnion. Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Londres, Routledge, 2019, 2019, 9781138545878. hal-02915647 

"While some scholars consider that the European integration process has always had a dominant neoliberal component, this contribution will argue that, on the contrary, the development of the European Union since its inception in 1957 (as the EEC) has always been characterized by a balance between three types of policies : socially-oriented, neomercantilist, and market-oriented, with neoliberalism being a radical version of the latter category"