JEIH Journal of European Integration History

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...

The ambition to constitute a Maghreb Union is ancient. Nonetheless, the practical achievement of this project collides with the State actors will, on the one hand, to assert their leadership through competing strategies and on the other, to...

In some policy domains, the relationship between the Council of Europe and the EU (including its predecessors) has been very close, oscillating between cooperation and competition. This holds particularly true for fields in which the European...

Raymond Rifflet, Belgian europeist and eurocrat, campaigned very young in the federalist ranks, especially at the European union of federalists and in the Movement for the Socialist United States of Europe, before he joined the European Commission...

How the Hanseatic League over the centuries succeeded in generating binding power upon its members and performed steering services? To answer this question, we need to systematically assign the theory-driven assumptions on legitimate forms of...

This article investigates the central role of the desert in European Integration, by examining its position as the “cornerstone” of Eurafrica. Rather than focusing narrowly on the extraction of oil, it follows the territorial ambitions of the...

The Euregio Rhine-Ems-Ijssel in the German-Dutch borderland was one of the first cross-border co-operations which had been established at the internal borders of the European Community since the end of the 1950s. The dismantling of the border as a...

The article explores one long term aspect of European Integration from the early 19th to the middle of the 20th century. It was the Prussian delegate Wilhelm von Humboldt who, at the Vienna Congress in 1815, spoke of a “Volonté Générale”...