ABSTRACT
The project of European Integration —he political, as well as academic, debate around the meanings and extent of 'integration' — has brought to the fore, with renewed intensity, the fact that the benefits of a Single European Market (SEM) will be quite unequally distributed among regions and social groups within the Community. However, earlier policies against such 'malfunctioning' of the European philosophy seem to be gradually being abandoned in practice, as the priorities of the Maastricht Treaty indicate, and the SEM is expected to promote convergence (see, for example, Delors 1988, Kazakos 1989, Malheiros 1990).
