This book aims at reconstructing De Gasperi's Europeanism from the years of the cultural and political formation of the statesman from Trentino in the Habsburg Empire and in the multinational Parliament in Vienna to his resolute and passionate activities for the political unification of Europe.
The book reconstructs the long road toward a European single currency: the first monetary unification projects in the '50s and '60s; the turbulence of the '70s; the EMS; the causes of the 1992 crisis; the long struggle for the Monetary Union, which would end at Maastricht. Finally, it focuses on the creation of the Eurozone and its recent crisis.
Proceedings of conference "The Road Europe Travelled Along--The Evolution of the EEC/EU Institutions and Policies," which was held at the University of Siena on the 23rd and 24th of May, 2008.