JEIH Journal of European Integration History

This paper analyses the Right-Wing British Tabloid Press’s (RWBTP) influence on the outcome of the 2016 UK referendum on EU membership. Focusing on The Sun, The Daily Mail, and The Daily Express, it examines their ‘agenda setting’ role both...

This article analyses how the Schuman Plan, with its European scope, was received by the regional press in the Moselle department, where the impact of the coal and steel pool was particularly high and whose proponent, Robert Schuman, was one of the...

Through the lens of the reuse of archival footage, the ANR CROBORA project maps the visual representation of Europe in French and Italian media from 2001 to 2020. The collection of reprises was carried out in the evening newscasts of six national...

This article examines the visions of the historical past embedded in generative artificial intelligence systems, using the European Union as a case study. It considers user queries and generated artifacts as primary sources revealing historical...

In the years of the transition to democracy, Europe and the EEC, as synonyms for democracy, were a common image in the Spanish media. The long process of Spain’s accession, however, also led to the appearance of some less friendly images,...

This article analyses an event – the end, in 1999, of a relational system between the European Commission and the international press corps in Brussels – from a configurational perspective. Until then, this system was articulated around three...

Dealing with the evolution of television news programs about Europe in France from 1950 to 1967, our article unavoidably focuses on the TV coverage of the first significant milestones of European construction. But it does not ignore more modest,...

This article traces the relationship of the German trade unions with Jean Monnet’s Action Committee for the United States of Europe, centring on the negotiations for the 1957 Rome Treaties. The challenge presented by the Messina relance encouraged...

The article examines how the German Länder coped with the effects of European integration. The focus is on the specific changes to the German federal state and the relationship between the Länder and the federal government. The presentation...

The article aims at shedding light on the affirmation of the concept of “sustainable tourism” in the EEC and the EU, a topic that gathered little attention from European integration historians as of yet. After having retraced the first...

This paper explores Kosovo’s quest for international recognition and integration following its declaration of independence on 17 February 2008. A significant aspect of this journey has been Kosovo’s pursuit of membership in international...

This article aims to shed new light on the role of the European People’s Party (EPP) in the European revival of the early 1980s, which culminated in the Single European Act (1986), the first global reform of the Treaties of Rome (1957). Despite...

This article examines the significance of the Polish case during the Cold War within the strategic agenda of the European People’s Party (EPP) by reconstructing the geopolitical dimensions of human rights discourse. It highlights how the rise of...

This article sheds light on the West German project for the EEC and on the specific contribution of German political and economic culture to the European compromise. Drawing on a transnational comparative perspective, it highlights the continuity...

Wolfgang Schäuble’s memoirs are a first-rate historical source for German European policy, which he helped to shape as Chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag from 1991 to 2000 and as Finance Minister from 2009 to 2017. They...

This paper examines the history of civil nuclear cooperation between Germany and the United States from 1958 to 1963. Following its reestablishment as a sovereign state in 1955, Germany aimed to adopt nuclear technology from the US. However, this...