The European Union and Social Market Economy

A good start for these forward is Prof. NIETO initial sentence: “The idea behind European integration was a desire to create a pragmatic utopia”. As it happenes usually in history the road to give flesh to the utopia has been rahter long and not always straightlined, but the pillars of the building were remarkably setted since the beginning and have given consistency to the evolution.European social model has only been defined very recently and it is the result of that evolution. European Coal al Steel Community was a market scheme, not a socialist scheme nor his purpose was to establishing colbertism at a bigger scale.