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During the second half of the 1980s, the gloomy forecasts about the future of Western Europe slowly started giving way to modest hope, and ultimately to ‘Euro-optimism’. While the recession of the early eighties had left memorable scars, several years of uninterrupted economic growth, soaring stocks markets and improving East-West relationships had built the confidence that Europe might regain some of its lost economic power.
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Cool, K. (1992). Dynamics of European Industrial Restructuring. In: Cool, K., Neven, D.J., Walter, I. (eds) European Industrial Restructuring in the 1990s. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12582-1_1
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