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Over the last ten years the European unification project seemed to rely overwhelmingly on progress in economic terms. The most prominent achievements - the Single Market, the harmonisation of market regulation, the euro - were all driven by an economic rationale. However, attempts to rescue Europe from the ongoing financial crisis call for mutual support and solidarity, concepts that can hardly be derived from pure economic reasoning. This leads to an important question that has been too long neglected: what is the political and civic motivation for a united Europe? Besides a great desire to stabilise peace in Europe, the origins of the unification activities also included mutual interest in language, culture, habits and people in neighbouring countries. Has this been abandoned in favour of a purely economic vision? Or are the economic arguments merely the easiest to promote to the European population? What message does this send in times of mistrust in markets and dim economic prospects for the eurozone? Can a political, cultural and civic European spirit still be reinvigorated, and if so, how?

El presente estudio trata de extraer de la experiencia de un Mercado Europeo Unico de servicios financieros dos lecciones fundamentales para America Latina. La primera es que las partes contratantes deben fijar, en forma colectiva, objetivos estrategicos claros de integracion, incluidos por un lado el desarrollo economico y la competitividad global y, por otro, la relacion con las autoridades reguladoras de los Estados Unidos y otras de rango internacional. La segunda es que la puesta en practica efectiva exigira reformas simultaneas, fiscales y bancarias, asi como un compromiso de coordinacion macroeconomica y monetaria, y apoyo concreto para los paises miembros menos desarrollados. (Integr Comer/DÜI)