Europe and the European Community 1992

Bibliographic Data

ID10757706
AuthorsChristopher G A Bryant (corresponding author)
Year1991
Volume25
Issue2
Pages189-207
Publication date1991-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-0385 • E-ISSN: 1469-8684
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0038038591025002002
OpenAlexW2070978696
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited16

Completion of the European Community's single internal market by 31 December 1992 is intended to secure the free movement of goods, services, capital and labour within the Community. This article examines the 1992 project with special reference to harmonisation and variation among the twelve members of the EC, `Social Europe' and the Social Charter, `Citizens' Europe', and the wider European context following the collapse of state socialism in Eastern Europe. It is argued that the interaction between the neo-liberalism of the single market, other EC policies, and the various historic practices of the twelve will generate highly complex outcomes for the Community as a whole and for individual members. Novel social and political forms - some of them hard even to conceptualise - may be expected. The same may be said of Eastern Europe. Throughout the continent sociologists will have an indispensible part to play in making the provenance and character of the various outcomes understandable to all concerned

Charter · Context (archaeology · Economics · Economy · European community · European union · International trade · Liberalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Single market · Social capital · Sociology · State (computer science · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Political Theory and Influence · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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