JEIH Journal of European Integration History

Through the course of a sequence of different chapters, this article, which is based upon the research literature, after some preliminary thoughts and terminology at the beginning, will give answers to different questions: How is the history of...

Historical research has perceived the 1970s as a period of crisis for economic coop­eration of the Western industrialized countries. The article tries to evaluate whether this is also true for energy policy during and after the oil crisis of...

What should an ideal European Union look like? In 1975, Léo Tindemans attempted to answer this question by asking the opinion of socio-economic elites in the then nine Member states. These national perceptions of Europe are the core of our...

Against the background of terrorist threats, but also in the light of European integra­tion objectives, the nine EC member states began during the 1970s to align policies in the area of internal security. The principal forum for this was the...

The partnership between Italy and Britain has been a constant, albeit troubled, topic in the process of European integration. After the United Kingdom had become a member state, a London-Rome axis had been envisioned, to counteract the special...

Devant l’actuel blocage des relations entre la Turquie et l’UE, il convient de s’interroger sur les raisons qui sont à l’origine des négociations d’adhésion, car la Turquie était - et est toujours - un candidat controversé pour des...

This open issue of the Journal of European Integration History contains five pieces, each adopting a rather distinctive approach, and each dealing with very different subject matter. It is hence an issue that underlines the variety of research...

Pendant les années 1970, la Communauté européenne et ses États membres commencèrent à vouer leur attention aux violations des droits de l'homme dans d'autres pays. Tandis que l'historiographie prêtait son attention jusqu'ici essentiellement...

L’article propose une analyse empirique en profondeur des efforts entrepris par le Parti Populaire Européen (PPE) - un groupement centre-droit et fédéraliste - en vue de jouer un rôle au sein de la Conférence Intergouvernementale (CIG) de...

En sa fonction de chancelier (1974-1982), Helmut Schmidt a considérablement influencé la politique européenne de la RFA; en sa qualité de coéditeur de l'hebdomadaire renommé Die Zeit, il se prononce régulièrement jusqu'à nos jours sur le...

The article focuses on the changes in the economic relations between the European Communities and the Arab world from the 1970s to the 1980s. The decline of oil prices in 1986 impacted heavily on the development of the Arab world and its partnership...

This article examines aspects of the foreign policy of Greece’s socialist Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou regarding the Mediterranean from 1981 to 1986. The Mediterranean was one of the three circles of Papandreou's “multidimensional”...

The article focuses on the analysis of the media coverage of the Mediterranean region in the late 20th century. German print media have been chosen as examples due to Germany’s role as a founding member of the European Economic Community, and core...

This article discusses the way in which migration in the Mediterranean area has affected relations between European states and other Mediterranean states. It is based on the archives of the Council of Ministers of the European Union, the Council of...

A division of the Mediterranean between an “advanced” Northern and a “less developed” Southern littoral was already evident since the 19th century, but the Cold War came to deepen and formalize it. The countries of the Northern coast (except...