‘Policy Push’ for European Integration: Implications of the Information Society

  • Xiudian Dai
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Abstract

If the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War have provided a new political opportunity for the reintegration of Europe and the construction of a new European identity, the world-wide digital communications revolution brings with it a new technological opportunity for the Europeans to achieve the same objective. In parallel, or coinciding, with the post-Cold War development of European politics, this digital communications revolution is becoming increasingly relevant to the ‘deepening’ and ‘widening’ of European integration.

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European Union European Commission European Integration Information Society High Level Group 
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