This volume aims to provide students in undergraduate studies, master's or doctoral programs, from faculties of economic or political sciences, valuable information for deciphering the mechanisms that support the complex machinery called "European integration".
This paper is intended to be placed in the category of those with "variable geometry", which provides each student /teacher with the possibility to choose those sections/applications they consider necessary for better understanding of the characteristics of the European integration process, regarded especially from an economic point of view.
However, it must be noted that with such a complex process as the European integration, in which the economic, political, social, cultural dimensions are so deeply connected that they often lose their own identity, it is not only extremely difficult, but also inefficient to only crop the economic component. As such, each chapter has an integrated, interdisciplinary approach, characteristic to European studies.