Vision of Europe: Lessons For the World

In this introductory essay, the author defines the economic vision of Europe for its internal market. Next, she will note how various Articles in this issue either express the vision, the tensions that lie within it, or the difficulties of the tasks involved in achieving it. She concludes by observing that Europe is grappling with a panoply of questions that will, in one decade or another, present themselves to the world, and while the world may not choose Europe's answers to the questions, it will be the wiser for confronting them.