JEIH Journal of European Integration History

This article examines the public visibility and media salience of European integration history since the 1960s. More specifically, it analyzes the narratives of four key moments in the history of today’s European Union (i.e. the Schuman...

The CAP has developed in a different direction from sustainable development, which has become an important objective of the EU. After its first great successes, the CAP has turned into a surplus machine, not sustainable either economically or...

The 1950s were a turning point in British European policy during which the country moved from passive bystander to prospective member of the European Economic Community (EEC). Existing scholarship, though, depicts the opposition Labour Party as...

The decolonization in Africa led industrialized Europe and ILO, which have an universalist vocation, to wonder about the assertion of their world role in front of the Big two and in front of the new States. They defended with the Western camp a...

In the early 1980s, against the backdrop of a protracted global economic downturn, Europe seemed to be at the crossroads between more integration and political inertia. In this context, the present essay analyses the "Genscher-Colombo Plan", i.e....

This article aims at reconstructing the theoretical framework, which supported the idea of Europe of the European Christian Democracy during the 1970s. I examined the works of the Ideological Commission of the European Union of Christian Democrats...

On 20 September 1976, the member states of the European Community signed the ‘Act concerning the Election of the Representatives of the Assembly by Direct Universal Elections’, which was to introduce direct elections for the European Parliament...

This paper analyses Romania’s course of action in the area of EU-funded projects prior to and after integration, whilst emphasising the gradual creation of a managerial culture, at national level. Three major multiannual financing frameworks -...

This article deals with the role of the European Commission in the management of the European Development Fund, the main financial instrument of the Yaoundé and Lomé Conventions with the African, Caribbean and Pacific States. It also deals with...

Recent research has shown that (neo-)colonial concepts played a larger role in ideas about European collaboration in the 1950s than had been previously assumed. However, this recent international discussion is almost exclusively based on the French...

This article aims to shed light on the particular insights of the contextual challenges and feasibility factors of EU cohesion funds implementation in Spain as a result of a conceptually seeded political agency impact at the Maastricht Treaty...

The paper focuses on the qualitative analysis of the EU funding influence to the development of the associate countries and its impact on the fulfilment of the criteria for becoming a new EU member state. The particular focus of the analysis is...

This paper revisits the Common Agricultural Policy crisis of the 1970s/1980s, when growing policy expenditures became a stumbling block for European integrations. It explores the role of two conceptually different approaches - one based on the logic...

The paper deals with the transformation of regional development policies in Europe from the second half of the twentieth-century. This process is associated with the increasingly important role of EC/EU Regional Policy and a contextual emergence of...

Contrairement à une opinion largement répandue dans les discours commémoratifs actuels qui évoquent les bons vieux temps des pères fondateurs, les Traités de Rome ne furent point conclus dans une atmosphère d’euphorie pour l’Europe. Au...