'In some respects, intra-EU integration and globalisation move together since the Union is very open. In other respects, there are frictions such as a slowly widening wage gap between skills and the fear of continuous relocation of companies to other continents. This book highlights the interaction between these two phenomena in various ways by adding new empirical work on globalisation e.g. outsourcing, spill-overs for developing countries under climate change strategies ("carbon leakage" in EU jargon) and exchange pass-through after opening the economy to globalisation (example, India). For the EU the double challenge of absorbing the impact of globalisation and the ambitious deepening of its internal market is discussed by (rightly) focussing on EU countries most vulnerable to globalisation, i.e. the new Member States given their new production and trade structures. Altogether, a timely and useful contribution.'