In the first issue of the Journal of European Integration History (JEIH), Alan S. Milward declare... more In the first issue of the Journal of European Integration History (JEIH), Alan S. Milward declared the coming of age of European integration history as a sub-field. Accordingly, it had developed into a ‘separate historiography’ (Milward 1995, 7). Milward also made far-reaching claims about the features and aims of such a new sub-field and the JEIH, which was to become one of its main outlets. The JEIH should mark ‘the beginning of a new period of research where history now has its own theories and a research agenda which derives from them’ (Milward 1995, 7).
With the launch of the European integration process after World War II, a new type of administrat... more With the launch of the European integration process after World War II, a new type of administration emerged which was neither an international organisation nor a national administration. Drawing on extensive archival records and oral history interviews, this book is the first comprehensive study of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) and the Commission of the European Economic Community (EEC), and their personnel, the European civil servants. This administrative elite was to have a vital influence on the European integration process, devising and administering key European policies such as the Common Agricultural Policy. Katja Seidel combines administrative and biographical history and provides significant insights into the origins of Europe's supranational institutions and the administrative cultures that developed in them. She effectively shows how European administrative elites and supranational administrations are vital to understanding the process of politics in Europe. This book will be invaluable for scholars of politics, history and the development of European integration.
It is a paradox that since its beginnings in the 1950s the European integration process has been ... more It is a paradox that since its beginnings in the 1950s the European integration process has been closely tied to agriculture – a sector in decline. The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) became the European Community's (EC) first common policy and it was and still is its most expensive single budget item. Due to the annual price negotiations and the important surpluses that emerged already in the mid-1960s – often caricatured as butter mountains and milk lakes – the CAP was by far the most visible and the most contested EC policy. Conversely, repeated attempts to reform the policy over a period of more than two decades failed to bring about the required corrections.
In the first issue of the Journal of European Integration History (JEIH), Alan S. Milward declare... more In the first issue of the Journal of European Integration History (JEIH), Alan S. Milward declared the coming of age of European integration history as a sub-field. Accordingly, it had developed into a ‘separate historiography’ (Milward 1995, 7). Milward also made far-reaching claims about the features and aims of such a new sub-field and the JEIH, which was to become one of its main outlets. The JEIH should mark ‘the beginning of a new period of research where history now has its own theories and a research agenda which derives from them’ (Milward 1995, 7).
With the launch of the European integration process after World War II, a new type of administrat... more With the launch of the European integration process after World War II, a new type of administration emerged which was neither an international organisation nor a national administration. Drawing on extensive archival records and oral history interviews, this book is the first comprehensive study of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) and the Commission of the European Economic Community (EEC), and their personnel, the European civil servants. This administrative elite was to have a vital influence on the European integration process, devising and administering key European policies such as the Common Agricultural Policy. Katja Seidel combines administrative and biographical history and provides significant insights into the origins of Europe's supranational institutions and the administrative cultures that developed in them. She effectively shows how European administrative elites and supranational administrations are vital to understanding the process of politics in Europe. This book will be invaluable for scholars of politics, history and the development of European integration.
It is a paradox that since its beginnings in the 1950s the European integration process has been ... more It is a paradox that since its beginnings in the 1950s the European integration process has been closely tied to agriculture – a sector in decline. The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) became the European Community's (EC) first common policy and it was and still is its most expensive single budget item. Due to the annual price negotiations and the important surpluses that emerged already in the mid-1960s – often caricatured as butter mountains and milk lakes – the CAP was by far the most visible and the most contested EC policy. Conversely, repeated attempts to reform the policy over a period of more than two decades failed to bring about the required corrections.
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