The purpose of The Journal of European Integration History is to encourage the analysis and understanding of different aspects of European integration, especially since 1945, in as wide a perspective as possible. The Journal publishes the conclusions of research on diplomatic, military, economic, technological, social and cultural aspects of integration. Numbers devoted to single themes as well as to diverse subjects are published in English, French or German. Each number includes reviews of important, relevant publications. Website: www.zgei.nomos.de
This article examines the development of the European Large Combustion Plant Directive between 1983 and 1988, which was adopted to tackle transboundary air pollution from thermal power stations. It highlights tensions within the European Community...
This article examines the unequal relationship between Greenpeace and the titanium dioxide (TiO2) industry as both actors explored their scope for action within the intricate framework of European water policy. The paper argues that a legislative...
This article critically assesses the European Community’s/Union’s environmental leadership. Although the EC/EU is often seen as a global environmental leader, this study challenges that by analysing the limits of ‘greening’ efforts in...
Drawing on business associations’ archives of various European countries, this article examines the joint action of the Union of Industrial and Employers’ Confederations of Europe (UNICE) and the Council of European Industrial Federations (CEIF)...
This article investigates the roots and early developments of the European Environ-ment Agency, within the context of the EU’s Environmental policy integration, the debate on sustainability, and the beginnings of multilateral climate negotiations....
When the United States started environmental policy with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in 1970, one of its core instruments was the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) which Congress accepted without much debate. By contrast, it took...
European Environmental Policy underwent a process of liberalisation from 1973 to 1992, shifting from so-called ‘command-and-control’ instruments such as technical standards, to ‘market-based instruments’ such as tradable pollution permits....
Transport has become Europe’s ‘problem child’ in environmental policy: it is the only sector that failed to cut CO₂ emissions over the past 30 years. This paper examines how the EU Commission tried to balance competition and sustainability...
This article explores the European Commission’s role in shaping the European Community’s carbon and energy tax project from 1988 to 1992. Drawing on fresh materials from European, national, and private archives, it examines how internal debates...
How did the European Union (EU) emerge a global leader in twenty-first century climate governance? While the United Nations (UN) pioneered collective climate action in the 1980s and some national governments implemented carbon taxes in the 1990s,...