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(1998). The limits of European Union competition policy. New Political Economy: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 292-295.

In this paper we will submit the following thesis to the reader’s reflection. The crisis of the paradigm of the industrial society that has manifested itself since the mid-seventies, has favoured since thirty years the promotion and dissemination throughout the world of two new global paradigms: the paradigm of information society and the paradigm of sustainable development. Both new paradigms, having quite different roots and aims, have developed quite independently the one from the other, i.e., without clear-cut opposition nor convergence occurring.

The FAST programme, launched by the European Communities in 1979, is aimed at developing and testing a tool for identifying long-term directions for RD the deep change in the nature of service activities; and the evolution of agricultural techniques and food processing. The programme brings together researchers, national administrations and industries in a futures-oriented research programme: it should provide the basis for outlining concrete proposals for developing European Community strategies.