JEIH Journal of European Integration History

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)...

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...

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....

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....

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,...

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 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 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...

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...

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 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,...