JEIH Journal of European Integration History

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

In recent years, historians have devoted much attention to the prominent role played by the major Western European powers - in primis France and the Federal Republic of Germany - in stabilising the troubled Southern European scenario of the...

After considerable time, the paper revisits the issue of inception of the Council of Europe. The existing studies prevailingly focused on internal-external linkages of foreign policy-making in specific national cases. This article, in contrast,...

The process of applying for membership of an international organization entails em­bracing certain set of values the organisation is known to promote, especially as re­gards European integration. This study - based on a critical and qualitative...

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...