The Future of Europe.

• Author: Saffron, Joseph

Peter Coffey is a British national and holder of the United States West Chair at the University of St. Thomas, Minnesota. This compendium highlights key issues and introduces policy proposals that affect Europe generally and the European Community (EC) specifically. Although Coffey offers the reader a glimpse of future security, foreign policy and social issues, they are largely examined as a function of economics. Considering the EC was conceived as an economic creature, however, his primacy on economics is not misplaced. Freedoms of movement of goods, labour and capital, the establishment of services subsequently receive due attention.

Coffey's style is frank and unapologetic: the Maastricht Treaty, he claims, is a "hotchpotch, a rushed job, an inadequate document" and a potential impediment to any enlargement or broadening of the EC, a development Coffey advocates. Britain and France draw sharp criticism for their conduct during the Bosnia crisis.

Coffey envisages a "Europe a la carte" insomuch as any European union must be a selective union. Mindful of the...