JEIH Journal of European Integration History

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...

Drawing on the European Space Agency (ESA) documents held at the Historical Archives of the European Union (HAEU), the present paper tries to shed some light on ESA-China relations during the Nineties, specifically focusing on first contacts in the...

The Lomé Convention was a development cooperation agreement signed in 1975 between the European Community and the ACP group (Africa, Caribbean, and the Pacific). Lomé built a unique institutional framework for debates over development and created...

On 23 March 1971, approximately one hundred thousand farmers protested in Brussels against the Mansholt plan. The vast majority of them were Belgian farmers who responded en masse to the ubiquitous call from the Belgian farming organisations for...

This article researches discursive practices of Members of European Parliament (MEPs) regarding Turkey’s identity and geopolitical role in the context of the Syrian Civil War from 2011 to 2016. It argues that MEPs struggled to accept Turkey’s...

This article analyses the limited participation of Italian farmers’ unions in the demonstration and the changes it brought to the Italian farm labour force. The first reason for their non-participation was these farmers’ lack of economic means....

The literature dedicated to the relationships between the UK government led by Margaret Thatcher and the EEC has often underlined the harsh and uncompromising attitude adopted by the Prime Minister towards the Community, with particular reference to...

This article examines American positions on the Internal Market Completion Program initiated in 1985 by the European Community. This eight-year program lasted until the end of 1992. The positions of experts, business representatives, the media,...

Drawing on extensive multi-archival and multi-institutional research, the article explores how the Committee of Professional Agricultural Organisations (COPA) responded to the multiple challenges presented by the Memorandum ‘Agriculture’ between...

This paper analyses the EU member states’ stance on Kosovo’s declaration of independence on 17 February 2008, which underwent scrutiny by the International Court of Justice (ICJ). On 22 July 2010, the ICJ issued an advisory opinion affirming...