Volume 22 (2016), Edition 2

The article explores one long term aspect of European Integration from the early 19th to the middle of the 20th century. It was the Prussian delegate Wilhelm von Humboldt who, at the Vienna Congress in 1815, spoke of a “Volonté Générale”...

It was rather unexpected that the first European Institutions became involved in architectural and urban planning debates in the 1950s. Seeking to increase the number of houses available for workers and aiming to improve their living conditions, the...

The Euregio Rhine-Ems-Ijssel in the German-Dutch borderland was one of the first cross-border co-operations which had been established at the internal borders of the European Community since the end of the 1950s. The dismantling of the border as a...

This paper discusses the contribution made by historians, particularly historians of European integration, to study of the problem of migration. In particular, it examines the most important historiographical debates on this topic until today. It...

Euroscepticism has been the subject of historical research for some time. Interest in the topic has arisen from the knowledge that opposition to European integration has a temporal dimension which has shaped its content. On this basis, this essay...

For many years the most prominent character trait of the political debate in the Netherlands on European citizenship was its near absence. Parliament and political parties seldom issued explicit opinions on the topic. European citizenship turned out...

This paper is a contribution to understanding the relevant role that multinational corporations played in the history of European integration. Taking the case of the automobile industry, it starts by questioning the real extent of the liberalisation...

The emphasis on the role played by European integration as a driver for economic growth, social advance and the political stability of its member states has become a conventional wisdom and informs most analyses of the entire process. Yet little...