http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/authors/2886/samuel-clark Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sun, 21 Jun 2026 04:11:04 -0400 Sun, 21 Jun 2026 04:11:04 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1064/how-will-the-crisis-in-the-european-single-currency-change-the-direction-of-intergration-europe By Samuel Clark - The European Integration Project envisaged by Jean Monnet of ‘ever closer union between the states of Europe’ was dreamed out of a desire to see that Europe did not return to war again. Europe had, at that time, experienced two hugely destructive wars within a generation of each other. From the 1950s until the collapse of the Soviet Union and reunification of Germany, in 1990, the propellant for integration was a fear of the influence of Communism or invasion from the Warsaw Pact. With America’s financial and military resources increasingly stretched - due to the Korean and Vietnam... Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:00 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1064/how-will-the-crisis-in-the-european-single-currency-change-the-direction-of-intergration-europe