This issue of Contemporary European Affairs discusses the Thatcherite political philosophy and vision of Europe and its impact on the practical question of the workings of the Single European Market after 1992. The Thatcherite position, given eloquent intellectual backing by Nigel Lawson's 1989 speech reprinted here, is deregulation yes, reregulation no; in essence, that the removal of barriers and restrictions will allow the market to operate and, in consequence, that the other measures will find their own level without specific legal intervention by the Community. However, there is also a social aspect to the unified European market - without social protection the market could produce low wages, diminished welfare, and fewer social provisions. The issue also includes articles on defence, AIDS, European citizenship, North-South relations and the Italian Communist Party Conference plus the book review section including a review of Memories by Andrei Gromyko.
Editorial , D S Bell & J Gaffney; Europe: Two Perspectives. What sort of
financial area? The Rt Hon Nigel Lawson MP. The European financial area and
monetary union, David Currie. Mrs Thatcher's Europe: the failed offensive,
Roy Pryce. The dogmas of liberalism, Victor Constancio. The shortcomings of
the Left in Europe, Bruno Trentin. A European's view of Nigel Lawson, Claude
Neuschwander. Solidarity or the law of the jungle, Nicolas Redondo. European
Dossier. Defence: the West and the Soviet Union, Helmut Schmidt. AIDS and
research, Jean-Paul Levy. The question of European citizenship, Bruno
Etienne. Europe and North-South relations, Samir Amin. Europe Now. Why?
Edgard Pisani. The Italian Communist Party Conference, Gianfranco Pasquino.
Literary Chronicle. The duty to be Portuguese, Jose Saramago. Book Reviews.
Education and the state aristocracy (review of La Noblesse d'Etat by Pierre
Bordieu), Jean-Marie Vincent. Red memoirs on white pages (review of Memories
by Andrei Gromyko), Frank Knowles.
