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

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The Idea of a United Europe

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.

An information society is a means to achieve so many of the Union’s objectives. We have to get it right, and get it right now (Bangemann et al., 1994).1

An earlier version of the text was presented at the ‘European Union in 2010’ conference held at the London European Research Centre, University of North London, 14–15 May 1999.

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Dai, X. (2000). ‘Policy Push’ for European Integration: Implications of the Information Society. In: Shahin, J., Wintle, M. (eds) The Idea of a United Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230520479_7

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