JEIH Journal of European Integration History

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...