JEIH Journal of European Integration History

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...

When AIDS appeared in Europe in 1981, the European Community had no legal competence in the field of health. However, as all Member States detected AIDS-cases, and as the fear of the pandemic rose in European public opinions, the Community, which...

This article introduces a partially special issue exploring the ways in which diverse political, economic, military, and technical actors in both camps perceived the techno-economic integration and disintegration of Europe during and after the First...

This article explores the attitude of French diplomacy towards the European Parliament’s European Union project. In May 1984, François Mitterrand opened to a new treaty based on the «Spinelli project». The French President’s endorsement of...

Before 1918, modern-day Slovakia was part of the Kingdom of Hungary within the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 1918, Slovakia became part of the new state of Czechoslovakia. This change necessitated, and produced, a wholesale transformation of its...

By the end of the 19th century, an international order had emerged for patents, allowing business actors to use patents in many countries concurrently, and thus supporting a new phase in the development of industrial capitalism. Centred on Europe in...

The First World War had differentiated effects on the development and integration of the railway network in northern East Central Europe. Until 1914 this region was part of the German and Russian Empires and the rail network densities in the states...

This article draws on the proceeding and the documents of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Western European Union (WEU) to account for how the unfolding crisis in Yugoslavia influenced debates on defence and security within the organization. While...

“Fortress Europe is a polysemic metaphor that was used as a synonym for the protectionist European Single Market from the 1980s. Since 1992, it has increasingly been associated with the European migration regime. Inside the European parliament,...

This article examines Brexit from the perspective of the role played by multiple historical narratives about the UK and its place in Europe, as well as the wider world. Existing accounts associate the 2016 referendum result with the rise of...