Table of Contents

Contents - 6 List of Tables - 10 List of Figures - 12 List of Abbreviations - 14 Acknowledgements - 18 Preface - 20 1. Introduction - 24 2. Historical Overview - 28 3. Political Debate on Europe - 48 4. Economic Impact of EU Membership - 68 5. Economic and Monetary Union (The Euro) - 88 6. Agricultural Policy - 120 7. Fisheries Policy - 186 8. Making up the Balance and Conclusion - 244 Annex 1 - 250 Annex 2 - 251 Annex 3 - 253 Annex 4 - 255 Annex 5 - 257 Bibliography - 260 Samenvatting in het Nederlands (Summary in Dutch) - 280 Summary in English - 281 Útdráttur á íslensku (Summary in Icelandic) - 282

About the Author

Magnus Bjarnason (1960 Reykjavik, Iceland) is a graduate of the Danish Military Academy in Copenhagen. He has a Master of Business Administration and a Master of International Politics from Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. Before writing his PhD dissertation The Political Economy of Joining the European Union, he worked for the Danish Government, the Icelandic Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and the United Nations. He has previously published a book and an article with political analysis of the Yugoslav civil war.