This edition reflects the enormous changes in Western Europe through the 1990s The Maastricht Treaty and the single European market, industrial policy and the drive to achieve a more competitive Europe, EU regional policy and the operation of the structural and cohesion funds, reform of the common agricultural policy and the concept of integrated rural development, reunification of Germany and its impact on Europe, environmental policies, transport, including high-speed rail and the Channel Tunnel, fishing policy and the implications for maritime Europe, and the future of the European Union.