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During the past few decades, there has been an intense process of political, social and economical integration within the European Union countries. With the exception of the completion of the Single Market Programme, the European banking system has been influenced, due to the extension to other Eastern countries, by specific events such as the European Monetary Union with the new policies in public debt, the privatization process, the structural deregulation and the concomitant supervisory re-regulation, and so forth (see Gardener 1995; Economic Research Europe 1997). Besides these events, the European banking system is also influenced by international-worldwide trends; that is, globalization, innovations, deregulation, disintermediation, dimension, shareholders value, and so forth (see Schmidt 2000; European Central Bank 1999, 2004, 2005; Rybczynski 1988; Pavel and McElravey 1990; White 1998).
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Boscia, V., Carretta, A., Schwizer, P. (2010). Introduction. In: Boscia, V., Carretta, A., Schwizer, P. (eds) Cooperative Banking in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230248601_1
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