unified markets - Luiss University Press https://luissuniversitypress.it Casa editrice dell'Università Luiss Fri, 04 Sep 2026 11:16:46 +0000 it-IT hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://luissuniversitypress.it/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/cropped-apple-icon-32x32.png unified markets - Luiss University Press https://luissuniversitypress.it 32 32 The European Toolbox https://luissuniversitypress.it/pubblicazioni/the-european-toolbox/ Fri, 04 Sep 2026 11:16:46 +0000 https://luissuniversitypress.it/?post_type=product&p=20286 Peace in Europe was not declared: it was built, tool by tool. First through coal and steel, then through unified markets, then through a currency — the euro, less a top-down design than an experiment, economic instruments tried, retried, and adjusted until they became politically viable. Each shock that followed — sovereign debt, a banking [...]

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]]> Peace in Europe was not declared: it was built, tool by tool. First through coal and steel, then through unified markets, then through a currency — the euro, less a top-down design than an experiment, economic instruments tried, retried, and adjusted until they became politically viable. Each shock that followed — sovereign debt, a banking crisis, a pandemic, an energy war — forced governments to add a new tool rather than rewrite the plan. The European Toolbox traces this method from Maastricht, the euro — a successful achievement — to the present: institutions layered under pressure, negotiating between technical results and democratic consent. What emerges is a project permanently under construction: understanding how it was built is the only way to see where it goes next.

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