JEIH Journal of European Integration History

Memorial issues have been one of the most important themes of the French presidential campaign of 2022. Éric Zemmour’s demand to abolish the memorial laws and Marine Le Pen’s and Valérie Pécresse’s criticism of the commemorations of the end...

Cross-border regions in Europe have been often identified as models or testing places for European integration. The Franco-German-Swiss Upper Rhine Region has a long experience in cross-border cooperation since the 1960s, which should be a good...

While the accession of the first post-communist states to the European Union (EU) in 2004 seemingly reunited the continent after 45 years of division, new political fault-lines soon emerged. I argue that the divergent understandings of nationalism,...

The article analyses how history is used in the Danish-Swedish cross border Oresund area. The case study allows for an exploration of memory politics with relation to multiple regional processes (EU, Nordic, Scandinavian), as well as from multiple...

Learning from and coming to terms with Europe’s belligerent past have been important drivers of regional integration since the Second World War. Unlike other disciplines, International Relations (IR) has long ignored memory as a relevant factor in...

This article investigates the long-neglected influence of the European Parliament (EP) in the field of free movement of persons and the abolishment of border controls in the European Community (EC). Since the immediate post-war period,...

The Madrid European Council of 26-27 June 1989, where the twelve heads of state of the EEC officially approved the Delors Report and formally launched the EMU process, marked the emergence of a new consensus towards European institutional...

Environmental policies and politics are an important component of European integration history, yet they remain underexplored. They were sources of conflict, contestation, and alternative visions and had a profound impact on the history of European...

This article analyses historians’ affiliation with the European integration process in the 1980s through a specific case study, namely the Association of European Historians (AEH). The study considers the AEH’s connections with the European...

28 November 2020 marked 25 years since the European Union (EU) launched the so-called Barcelona Process. What was known as the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP) is, to date, the most ambitious attempt launched by the EU to cope with the...

This contribution addresses post-war manifestations of Euroscepticism in Germany and the Netherlands. The two countries are selected as relevant cases to study in historical-comparative perspective, because of the many similarities as far as...

The European Investment Bank (EIB) was the first financial institution to test the markets with bonds denominated in ‘Eurcos’, a basket of all European Community currencies, loosely based on Member Countries’ share of GNP, in September 1973...