Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-314) and index.

Contents: Building Rome: The Idea of Europe -- Visions of Europe -- A coming together -- A common market -- Merits and demerits -- Reviving the dream -- A single act -- An ever closer union: Maastricht: An Ever closer union -- Bits and pieces -- A crisis of governance -- Amsterdam: Reflections -- The Age of flexibility -- Nice: Leftovers --Tempted by rights -- A Decade of europe? -- The Foundations of community law: A Supreme court -- Vertical direct effect: The first step -- Horizontal direct effect: A Second step? -- Making references -- Fundamental principles: A Common administrative law -- Fundamental principles: Human rights -- An honest broker? -- Running wild? -- The Law of integration: The Question of competence -- An Awkward partner? -- The question of sovereignty -- The European way -- The Shopkeepers' tale -- Anomalous and wrong -- A culture of rights -- The Law of the market: The Idea of a free market -- The Single market project -- The Free movement of goods -- The Albatross of agriculture -- Regulating competition -- Consumers -- Capital and currency -- Completing the market? -- The Law of persons: Europe's social face -- Treating women the same -- Treating women differently -- The Free movement of some persons -- The Others -- Dealing with discrimination -- The Idea of a good society -- Beyond Europe: The New world order -- The Community and the global market -- The Rotten heart of Europe -- Building fortress Europe --The Politics of exclusion -- A greater Europe? -- The evolution of a 'European' foreign policy -- Europe and the new world order -- In Search of a public philosophy: The Limits of legalism -- In Search of a public philosophy -- The Post modern-critique -- The Liberal critique -- The Social democratic critique -- Citizens -- Multiplicity -- Cosmopolitanism and the new humanism.