JEIH Journal of European Integration History

The liberal order that prevailed in the West after the end of the Second World War has recently been challenged from within as much as by external forces. The liberal internationalism and liberal democratic politics that defined the idea of ‘The...

This article explores the likelihood of the ‘Doing less more efficiently’ scenario in Jean-Claude Juncker’s “White Paper on the Future of Europe” being applied for the reform of the European Union. Given the close association of this...

This article reconstructs the European Community (EC)’s - later the European Union (EU) - participation in the GATT Uruguay Round and the parallel negotiations between China and GATT/WTO members taking place in the 1980s-1990s. The two...

On 2 March 1967, the French sports newspaper L’Équipe, indicated the participation of the club of the Girondins de Bordeaux in a new European tournament called the “European Market Cup”. According to this periodical, the competition was to be...

Europe, a fallen star, is seeking regeneration. The European Union, after more than 10 years of setbacks, tries to claim the aura of a community of European values. But with the thesis of an identity between the EU and Europe the unionist elites...

Does the European Union consist of a new world power with imperial ambitions? That is what is asked before the decade of crises 2008-2018, but also later on. Was it and is still it an empire at all? This will be analysed and discussed starting with...

The present crisis of the EU must be seen as part of a general crisis of parliamentary democracy. It is a crisis resulting from an extraordinary increase in change of societies, economic conditions and cultural contexts in an age of enforced...

As Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Luxembourg over several decades, Pierre Werner shaped the future of his country and was one of the rare statesmen to play a part in the progress of European integration until the mid-1980s. He played a major...

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...