Reinventing Europe

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 Figures
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Introduction
Part 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 Policies
Institutions
Introduction: 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 Spaces
13: 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: Chronology
Appendix: Glossary
Bibliography
Index