«Non a qualunque prezzo». Gli imprenditori e l’ingresso della Spagna nella Comunità economica europea

Ángeles González ^[1]
1. [1] Universidad de Sevilla
  
  Universidad de Sevilla
  
  Sevilla, España
Localización: Memoria e ricerca, ISSN 1127-0195, ISSN-e 1972-523X, Nº 32 (settembre-dicembre), 2009 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Questione morale e politica : problemi della transizione nella crisi europea di fine Novecento), págs. 137-158
Idioma: italiano
Títulos paralelos:
- «No at any price». The entrepreneurs and the Spain’s access to EEC (1957-1977)
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Resumen
- The concern of the Spanish businessmen towards membership in the European Communities took place under defined parameters for the defense of their interests and a purely economic view of the integration project, in the same way as among the majority of Greeks and Portuguese counterparts. Europe was a promise and a guarantee of development, the opportunity to complete the process of liberalization of the Spanish economy, to undertake industrial restructuring and to modernize and professionalize the management of their businesses. Otherwise, Europe was a challenge: they could only survive the best and most effective. This two faces were inseparable, as the two faces of Janus, and can help to explain the changing perceptions about integration and transition from a naive optimism to a widespread skepticism. It coincides with the expansive phase of the Spanish economy, but after that, the growth model began to experiment signs of crisis, in the second half of the sixties