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La economía española en la Unión Europea

2004; Spanish Confederation of Savings Banks; Issue: 100 Linguagem: Espanhol

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José Viñals,

Economic and Social Development

espanolEl articulo hace un balance de lo que ha supuesto para la economia espanola su integracion en la Union Europea a la luz de los cambios estructurales que dicha integracion ha traido consigo y que se han acentuado con el establecimiento del Mercado Unico en 1993 y la creacion de la Union Monetaria en 1999. Del analisis de la evolucion de la economia espanola durante este dilatado periodo se desprende que el formidable incremento del grado de apertura economica y financiera al exterior que ha tenido lugar ha desencadenado transformaciones de gran calado en la estructura de nuestra economia e incidido profundamente en su evolucion. Tras identificar las principales luces ?y tambien algunas sombras- de nuestra andadura europea, el articulo concluye examinando los retos principales que la economia espanola debe superar para aprovechar al maximo las ventajas potenciales que le reporta su pertenencia al area monetaria comun. EnglishThe article makes an appraisal of what accession to the European Union has meant for the Spanish economy in the light of the structural changes that this integration has brought with it and which have been accentuated with the establishment of the Single Market 1993 and the creation of Monetary Union in 1999. From the analysis of the evolution of the Spanish economy over this lengthy period it may be deduced that the formidable increase in the degree of economic and financial openness to the outside that has taken place has sparked off sweeping changes in the structure of our economy and has a profound effect on its evolution. After pinpointing the high spots ? and some low spots as well - of our European experience, the article concludes by examining the main challenges that the Spanish economy has to overcome in order to capitalise to the full on the potential advantages stemming from belonging to the common monetary area.