Brigitte Leucht is Reader in International History and Politics at University of Portsmouth, UK. She is the editor, along with Catherine Barnard and Albertina Albors-Llorens of Cassis de Dijon: 40 Years On (2021), and with Wolfram Kaiser and Morten Rasmussen, of The History of the European Union: Origins of a Trans- and Supranational Polity 1950-72 (2009).Katja Seidel is Senior Lecturer in History at University of Westminster, UK. She has published widely on a range of European policy areas, institutions and actors. She is the author of The Process of Politics in Europe: The Rise of European Elites and Supranational Institutions (2010).Laurent Warlouzet is Professor of History and Chair of European History at Paris-Sorbonne University, France. He is the author of Governing Europe in a Globalizing World (2018), which explores the evolution of European economic and social policies in the 1970s and 1980s.

• List of FiguresList of AbbreviationsList of ContributorsIntroductionPart I: Chronology 1: The formation of the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community and Euratom, 1945-1958 Brigitte Leucht (University of Portsmouth, UK)2: From the early Common Market to the crises of the 1960s, 1958-1968 Katja Seidel (University of Westminster, UK)3: From The Hague summit to the Maastricht Treaty, 1969-1992 Laurent Warlouzet (Paris-Sorbonne University, France)4: Treaty reform, enlargement and economic crisis, 1993-2021 Magdalena Frennhoff Larsén (University of Westminster, UK)Part II: Institutions and PoliciesInstitutionsIntroduction: EU Institutions and the development of a trans- and supranational community? Katja Seidel (University of Westminster, UK)5: The European Commission: a government in the making? Katja Seidel (University of Westminster, UK)6: The Court of Justice of the European Union and Integration Through Law Bill Davies (American University, USA)7: The European Parliament: empowering the talking shop Christian Salm (Foundation for European Progressive Studies, Belgium)Policies 8: Economic integration at the centre: construction of a Single Market, and the rise of competition policy Laurent Warlouzet (Paris-Sorbonne University, France)9: Milk lakes and butter mountains: the common agricultural policy Katja Seidel (University of Westminster, UK)10: Economic and monetary union: from 1957 to the euro crisis Alexis Drach (Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis, France)11: A citizens’ Europe? Consumer and environmental policies Brigitte Leucht (University of Portsmouth, UK)and Jan-Henrik Meyer (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Germany)12: A European society? Social policy and migration Simone Paoli (University of Pisa, Italy)Part III: Themes and Geographical Spaces13: Ideas in favour of European integration from the 19th century until today Katja Seidel (University of Westminster, UK)14: The European Union in international politics and trade: a global power in the making? Brigitte Leucht (University of Portsmouth, UK)15: Eastern Europe in the history of European integration: from the periphery to the centre? Ferenc Laczo (Maastricht University, Netherlands) and Vera Scepanovic (Leiden University, Netherlands)16: The Franco-German relationship at the heart of EU history Katja Seidel (University of Westminster, UK) and Carine Germond (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)17: In or out? Britain and the European project Mathias Haeussler (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)18: Integrating or breaking up Europe? Euroscepticism and opposition to Europe Carine Germond (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)19: Interpretations of European integration history and introduction to research tools Brigitte Leucht (University of Portsmouth, UK), Katja Seidel (University of Westminster, UK) and Laurent Warlouzet (Paris-Sorbonne University, France)Appendix: ChronologyAppendix: GlossaryBibliographyIndex

This is an imaginatively planned and executed introductory text to European integration history, showcasing the talents of many of the best emerging scholars in the field. An excellent starting point for any student.

Brigitte Leucht is Reader in International History and Politics at University of Portsmouth, UK. She is the editor, along with Catherine Barnard and Albertina Albors-Llorens of Cassis de Dijon: 40 Years On (2021), and with Wolfram Kaiser and Morten Rasmussen, of The History of the European Union: Origins of a Trans- and Supranational Polity 1950-72 (2009).Katja Seidel is Senior Lecturer in History at University of Westminster, UK. She has published widely on a range of European policy areas, institutions and actors. She is the author of The Process of Politics in Europe: The Rise of European Elites and Supranational Institutions (2010).Laurent Warlouzet is Professor of History and Chair of European History at Paris-Sorbonne University, France. He is the author of Governing Europe in a Globalizing World (2018), which explores the evolution of European economic and social policies in the 1970s and 1980s.

• List of FiguresList of AbbreviationsList of ContributorsIntroductionPart I: Chronology 1: The formation of the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community and Euratom, 1945-1958 Brigitte Leucht (University of Portsmouth, UK)2: From the early Common Market to the crises of the 1960s, 1958-1968 Katja Seidel (University of Westminster, UK)3: From The Hague summit to the Maastricht Treaty, 1969-1992 Laurent Warlouzet (Paris-Sorbonne University, France)4: Treaty reform, enlargement and economic crisis, 1993-2021 Magdalena Frennhoff Larsén (University of Westminster, UK)Part II: Institutions and PoliciesInstitutionsIntroduction: EU Institutions and the development of a trans- and supranational community? Katja Seidel (University of Westminster, UK)5: The European Commission: a government in the making? Katja Seidel (University of Westminster, UK)6: The Court of Justice of the European Union and Integration Through Law Bill Davies (American University, USA)7: The European Parliament: empowering the talking shop Christian Salm (Foundation for European Progressive Studies, Belgium)Policies 8: Economic integration at the centre: construction of a Single Market, and the rise of competition policy Laurent Warlouzet (Paris-Sorbonne University, France)9: Milk lakes and butter mountains: the common agricultural policy Katja Seidel (University of Westminster, UK)10: Economic and monetary union: from 1957 to the euro crisis Alexis Drach (Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis, France)11: A citizens’ Europe? Consumer and environmental policies Brigitte Leucht (University of Portsmouth, UK)and Jan-Henrik Meyer (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Germany)12: A European society? Social policy and migration Simone Paoli (University of Pisa, Italy)Part III: Themes and Geographical Spaces13: Ideas in favour of European integration from the 19th century until today Katja Seidel (University of Westminster, UK)14: The European Union in international politics and trade: a global power in the making? Brigitte Leucht (University of Portsmouth, UK)15: Eastern Europe in the history of European integration: from the periphery to the centre? Ferenc Laczo (Maastricht University, Netherlands) and Vera Scepanovic (Leiden University, Netherlands)16: The Franco-German relationship at the heart of EU history Katja Seidel (University of Westminster, UK) and Carine Germond (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)17: In or out? Britain and the European project Mathias Haeussler (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)18: Integrating or breaking up Europe? Euroscepticism and opposition to Europe Carine Germond (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)19: Interpretations of European integration history and introduction to research tools Brigitte Leucht (University of Portsmouth, UK), Katja Seidel (University of Westminster, UK) and Laurent Warlouzet (Paris-Sorbonne University, France)Appendix: ChronologyAppendix: GlossaryBibliographyIndex

This is an imaginatively planned and executed introductory text to European integration history, showcasing the talents of many of the best emerging scholars in the field. An excellent starting point for any student.

Brigitte Leucht is Reader in International History and Politics at University of Portsmouth, UK. She is the editor, along with Catherine Barnard and Albertina Albors-Llorens of Cassis de Dijon: 40 Years On (2021), and with Wolfram Kaiser and Morten Rasmussen, of The History of the European Union: Origins of a Trans- and Supranational Polity 1950-72 (2009).Katja Seidel is Senior Lecturer in History at University of Westminster, UK. She has published widely on a range of European policy areas, institutions and actors. She is the author of The Process of Politics in Europe: The Rise of European Elites and Supranational Institutions (2010).Laurent Warlouzet is Professor of History and Chair of European History at Paris-Sorbonne University, France. He is the author of Governing Europe in a Globalizing World (2018), which explores the evolution of European economic and social policies in the 1970s and 1980s.

• List of FiguresList of AbbreviationsList of ContributorsIntroductionPart I: Chronology 1: The formation of the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community and Euratom, 1945-1958 Brigitte Leucht (University of Portsmouth, UK)2: From the early Common Market to the crises of the 1960s, 1958-1968 Katja Seidel (University of Westminster, UK)3: From The Hague summit to the Maastricht Treaty, 1969-1992 Laurent Warlouzet (Paris-Sorbonne University, France)4: Treaty reform, enlargement and economic crisis, 1993-2021 Magdalena Frennhoff Larsén (University of Westminster, UK)Part II: Institutions and PoliciesInstitutionsIntroduction: EU Institutions and the development of a trans- and supranational community? Katja Seidel (University of Westminster, UK)5: The European Commission: a government in the making? Katja Seidel (University of Westminster, UK)6: The Court of Justice of the European Union and Integration Through Law Bill Davies (American University, USA)7: The European Parliament: empowering the talking shop Christian Salm (Foundation for European Progressive Studies, Belgium)Policies 8: Economic integration at the centre: construction of a Single Market, and the rise of competition policy Laurent Warlouzet (Paris-Sorbonne University, France)9: Milk lakes and butter mountains: the common agricultural policy Katja Seidel (University of Westminster, UK)10: Economic and monetary union: from 1957 to the euro crisis Alexis Drach (Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis, France)11: A citizens’ Europe? Consumer and environmental policies Brigitte Leucht (University of Portsmouth, UK)and Jan-Henrik Meyer (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Germany)12: A European society? Social policy and migration Simone Paoli (University of Pisa, Italy)Part III: Themes and Geographical Spaces13: Ideas in favour of European integration from the 19th century until today Katja Seidel (University of Westminster, UK)14: The European Union in international politics and trade: a global power in the making? Brigitte Leucht (University of Portsmouth, UK)15: Eastern Europe in the history of European integration: from the periphery to the centre? Ferenc Laczo (Maastricht University, Netherlands) and Vera Scepanovic (Leiden University, Netherlands)16: The Franco-German relationship at the heart of EU history Katja Seidel (University of Westminster, UK) and Carine Germond (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)17: In or out? Britain and the European project Mathias Haeussler (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)18: Integrating or breaking up Europe? Euroscepticism and opposition to Europe Carine Germond (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)19: Interpretations of European integration history and introduction to research tools Brigitte Leucht (University of Portsmouth, UK), Katja Seidel (University of Westminster, UK) and Laurent Warlouzet (Paris-Sorbonne University, France)Appendix: ChronologyAppendix: GlossaryBibliographyIndex

This is an imaginatively planned and executed introductory text to European integration history, showcasing the talents of many of the best emerging scholars in the field. An excellent starting point for any student.