JEIH Journal of European Integration History

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...