JEIH Journal of European Integration History

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...

This article analyses the establishment of the Standing Committee of the Social Sciences in the European Science Foundation in the late 1970s. Using the fields theoretical framework, it focuses on the discussions in the Ad Hoc committee formed to...

This article traces the history of ‘scientific excellence’ as an increasingly meaningful concept in the context of European scientific integration efforts. It distinguishes between three phases of how the concept was used by policy-makers as...

The article untangles the economic, political, and ideological threads that run through the actions of Pascal Lamy, one of the key actors in the European Union and later in the World Trade Organisation (WTO), faced with the phenomenon of...

In 1977, the EC launched the project of a "European Foundation" in response to the impetus of the Tindemans Report. This project, which falls within a cultural action, quickly encountered a series of obstacles related to the participation of...

The establishment of Research Infrastructures in Europe, often referred to as Big Science, has been a consistent focus of ad-hoc intergovernmental politics among member states and international partners since the latter half of the 20th century. In...

Using documents from various European archives, this article examines the development of European research policy in the European Community through the so-called Framework Programmes (FPs) in the 1980s. It is argued that during this period a mutual...

The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) established in 1954 constitutes one of the first forms of European cooperation of the post-Second World War period. Historically, CERN developed outside of the institutional frame of the ECSC/EEC...