From European Community to European Union: An Historical and Political Survey

Provides a superb historical overview of European integration, focusing on key episodes and crises as much as on 'grand designs'. McAllister shows how key developments have frequently been unforeseen, and driven by events not plans. Book Cover......Page 1 Half-Title......Page 2 Title......Page 3 Copyright......Page 4 Dedication......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Preface......Page 7 Acknowledgements......Page 9 Abbreviations......Page 10 Chronology......Page 15 FOUR CONTINUING ISSUES......Page 24 A PROCESS REPLETE WITH AMBIGUITIES......Page 25 CRITERIA FOR THE MATERIAL DISCUSSED......Page 26 POLITICS, ECONOMICS AND LAW......Page 30 1 Birth, childhood and adolescence......Page 34 SIXES AND SEVENS......Page 43 THE FOUCHET NEGOTIATIONS ON ‘POLITICAL UNION’......Page 45 THE FIRST UK ACCESSION BID AND THE ROAD TO JANUARY 1963......Page 49 THE CRISIS OF 1965–6 AND THE ‘LUXEMBOURG AGREEMENTS’......Page 53 THE SECOND ACCESSION BID......Page 58 THE SOAMES AFFAIR......Page 64 POLITICAL CHANGE IN FRANCE AND FEDERAL GERMANY......Page 66 MONETARY TURBULENCE IMPACTS ON THE COMMUNITY......Page 69 THE HAGUE SUMMIT......Page 73 OPTIMISM AMID GROWING UNCERTAINTY......Page 77 3 From The Hague to Paris 1969–72......Page 84 THE VEDEL AND WERNER REPORTS......Page 88 TURBULENCE IN THE COMMISSION......Page 96 THE BUDGET AND THE EPS POWERS......Page 99 ‘EUROPEAN POLITICAL COOPERATION’......Page 100 4 1973 A turbulent year......Page 104 5 The mid 1970s Locust years......Page 118 THE REPORTS......Page 127 THE TINDEMANS REPORT......Page 129 THE EC’S EXTERNAL RELATIONS......Page 141 Relations with the Comecon states......Page 142 The Mediterranean morass......Page 145 Japan......Page 147 6 ‘Euro-sclerosis’ The late 1970s and early 1980s......Page 150 DOMESTIC POLITICS AND THE ECONOMIC ORDER......Page 159 THE ‘30 MAY MANDATE’ SAGA......Page 163 THE GENSCHER-COLOMBO PLAN......Page 173 7 The mid 1980s ‘Single Market’ and ‘Single Act’......Page 184 8 The late 1980s and the road to ‘1992’......Page 206 AMBITIONS AND IMPLICATIONS OF THE WHITE PAPER......Page 209 IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ‘WIDER WESTERN EUROPE’......Page 215 THE ‘DELORS PACKAGE’ AND THE ‘INTER-INSTITUTIONAL AGREEMENT’......Page 218 PADOA-SCHIOPPA, EMU AND THE DELORS REPORT......Page 220 BANANA SKINS AGAIN: DELORS’S SPEECH OF 17 JANUARY 1989 TO THE EP......Page 230 HEGEMONY VERSUS EQUALITY? NEW STRAINS ON THE SYSTEM......Page 234 1990: THE YEAR OF GERMAN UNITY AND ITS EC REPERCUSSIONS......Page 237 ‘WIDENING AND DEEPENING’ AGAIN: THE ROAD TO MAASTRICHT......Page 244 THE RATIFICATION PROCESS......Page 247 WINDOWS OF OPPORTUNITY......Page 250 AMBIGUITIES......Page 254 THE PAINS AND STRAINS OF EMU......Page 256 IDENTITIES AND LEGITIMACY......Page 257 Bibliography......Page 260 Index......Page 270 The evolution of the European Community and its transition to the European Union has been far from smooth or predictable. Assessing key episodes, such as France's decision to absent herself from the Council of Ministers in 1965 and the turbulent events of 1973, Richard McAllister explores the history of European integration from the 1950s to the ratification of the Treaty on European Union at Maastricht and beyond. Written in a pacey and engaging way, this study reveals the full inside story of the political manoeuvrings behind the development of the European Union. Drawing extensively on contemporary reactions, Richard McAllister demonstrates how unforseen crises and events have been as significant as the 'grand designs' in shaping the EC/U. In particular, he looks at the evolving debates in four areas: the organisation of the EC/U's different institutions; policy development; the international role of the EC/U; its geographical scope and membership. This study is an important contribution to an understanding of the past, present and uncertain future of European integration. The evolution of the European Community and its transition to the European Union has been far from smooth or predictable. Assessing key episodes, such as France's decision to absent herself from the Council of Ministers in 1965 and the turbulent events of 1973, Richard McAllister explores the history of European integration from the 1950s to the ratification of the Treaty on European Union at Maastricht and beyond. Written in a pacey and engaging way, this study reveals the full inside story of the political manoeuvrings behind the development of the European Union. Drawing extensively on contemporary reactions, Richard McAllister demonstrates how unforeseen crises and events have been as significant as the 'grand designs' in shaping the EC/U. In particular, he looks at the evolving debates in four areas: the organisation of the EC/U's different institutions; policy development; the international role of the EC/U; its geographical scope and membership On the afternoon of 9 May 1950 Robert Schuman, born in Luxembourg and an auxiliary with the German army during the First World War, stepped as Foreign Minister of France into the Salon de I'Horloge at the Quai d'Orsay and asserted, 'It is no longer the moment for vain words, but for a bold act - a constructive act.' Recoge: 1.Introduction: a disputed community - 2.Birth, chilhood and adolescence - 3.The Community at the end of the 1960s - 4.From The Hague to Paris:1969-72 - 4.1973:a turbulent year - 5.The mid 1970s: Locust years First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.