This issue of the Journal of European Integration History, published in 2004 and coordinated by Klaus Schwabe, presents the views of several academics on the Western reaction to the events in Yugoslavia in the early 1990s.

In December 1987, Daniel Lebègue, Chief Executive Officer of the Banque Nationale de Paris, reports on the major issues surrounding the establishment of the future European internal market.

On 9 November 1988, at a seminar on Jean Monnet in Copenhagen, Martin Bangemann, German Minister for the Economy, gives an address on the economic repercussions and political prospects of the introduction of a European internal market.