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This book provides a comprehensive examination of events in Europe and the European Community's progress toward "union" from legal, economic, and public policy perspectives. It is intended for the general reader, but contains details of particular interest to lawyers, law students, business persons, and students of public policy and economics.

This book is unlike other treatments of the subject in that it presumes a distinctly American audience. Fischer takes great pains to explain events in Europe, the EU's long-term aims, and its potential to achieve them in terms that Americans can relate to and understand. His work largely focuses on the EU's impact on America's economic well-being until the turn of the century. The book is comprehensive and readable, using references to laws, case decisions, programs and policies of the European Union to illustrate its operations, aims, and prospects for the future.

"This book, well written and clear..., will largely interest students and faculty specializing in the EU." -- CHOICE Magazine, June 1996

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The author, an American emeritus professor of law, believes in the necessity of political and economic federation to husband the resources of the world and minimize disruptions in the orderly conduct of economic and public affairs. He argues therefore that the US should pay more attention to the attempts of the European Union (EU) to create a new (perhaps federal) political structure. The EU, the largest consuming and trading bloc in the world, is now more important to the US as a trading partner than any other market and is also the best ally of the US in expanding global trade. Fischer discusses EU policies in agriculture and taxation and compares them with US policies. He believes that increased federalism in the EU is inevitable and a "new Europe" possible. He examines the various institutions of the EU and the significance of the 1985 Single European Act and of the Maastricht treaty. Many other books on the history and institutions of the EU are available; most appeal to undergraduates. This book, well written and clear, is more scholarly, relying on laws, case decisions, and the policies of the EU. It will largely interest students and faculty specializing in the EU. M. Curtis Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick