Volume 23 (2017), Issue 1

Contrairement à une opinion largement répandue dans les discours commémoratifs actuels qui évoquent les bons vieux temps des pères fondateurs, les Traités de Rome ne furent point conclus dans une atmosphère d’euphorie pour l’Europe. Au...

Raymond Rifflet, Belgian europeist and eurocrat, campaigned very young in the federalist ranks, especially at the European union of federalists and in the Movement for the Socialist United States of Europe, before he joined the European Commission...

How the Hanseatic League over the centuries succeeded in generating binding power upon its members and performed steering services? To answer this question, we need to systematically assign the theory-driven assumptions on legitimate forms of...

This article investigates the central role of the desert in European Integration, by examining its position as the “cornerstone” of Eurafrica. Rather than focusing narrowly on the extraction of oil, it follows the territorial ambitions of the...

The ambition to constitute a Maghreb Union is ancient. Nonetheless, the practical achievement of this project collides with the State actors will, on the one hand, to assert their leadership through competing strategies and on the other, to...

In some policy domains, the relationship between the Council of Europe and the EU (including its predecessors) has been very close, oscillating between cooperation and competition. This holds particularly true for fields in which the European...