JEIH Journal of European Integration History

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”...

It was rather unexpected that the first European Institutions became involved in architectural and urban planning debates in the 1950s. Seeking to increase the number of houses available for workers and aiming to improve their living conditions, the...

The emphasis on the role played by European integration as a driver for economic growth, social advance and the political stability of its member states has become a conventional wisdom and informs most analyses of the entire process. Yet little...

This paper discusses the contribution made by historians, particularly historians of European integration, to study of the problem of migration. In particular, it examines the most important historiographical debates on this topic until today. It...

This paper is a contribution to understanding the relevant role that multinational corporations played in the history of European integration. Taking the case of the automobile industry, it starts by questioning the real extent of the liberalisation...

Euroscepticism has been the subject of historical research for some time. Interest in the topic has arisen from the knowledge that opposition to European integration has a temporal dimension which has shaped its content. On this basis, this essay...

For many years the most prominent character trait of the political debate in the Netherlands on European citizenship was its near absence. Parliament and political parties seldom issued explicit opinions on the topic. European citizenship turned out...

In recent years, historians have devoted much attention to the prominent role played by the major Western European powers - in primis France and the Federal Republic of Germany - in stabilising the troubled Southern European scenario of the...

After considerable time, the paper revisits the issue of inception of the Council of Europe. The existing studies prevailingly focused on internal-external linkages of foreign policy-making in specific national cases. This article, in contrast,...

The process of applying for membership of an international organization entails em­bracing certain set of values the organisation is known to promote, especially as re­gards European integration. This study - based on a critical and qualitative...