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,...