EU History

JEF-Europe-Federalist Papers

http://jef.communicate-europe.co.uk/about-jef/federalism/the-federalist-files/

History of EU

Integration Process

Origins 1919-1939

Origins 1945-1957

Treaties of Rome

Single European Act

Treaty of Maastricht

Treaty of Amsterdam

Challenges of the future

Treaty of Nice

European Citizenship

Citizenship of the Union

Citizenship and Identity

Glossary

Chronology

Biographies

Links

Links - European Values

Spanish Version

Portuguese Version

HISTORIASIGLO20.OR

MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY

http://www.angelfire.com/ma3/moderneurope/

Intergovernmental Conferences: an Overview, prepared by the EU. A full survey covering the negotiations of 1950-51, 55-57, 85, 90-91. Strange, though, how the failed negotaitions on the defence community (1952-54) have been airbrushed out of existence.

http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/glossary/intergovernmental_conference_en.htm

The History of Conditional Agenda-setting in European Institutions, by George Tsebelis and Amie Kreppel represents an attempt to make explicit and institutional interprestation of European integration. Research paper of the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of California, Irvine.

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/tsebelis/files/history_of_conditional_agenda_setting_1998_ejpr.pdf

The UK and EU. Reflections on the problem of explanation.

By Fred Nash, University of Southampton. Paper presented at the 1995 Annual conference of the British International Studies Association.

A History of the EU

prepared by the Dutch branch of the European Movement. A short history of the EU reached via the "geschiedenis" button. Only in Dutch.

History and Challenges

Prepared by the US Mission to the EU. Its history is thin, but it gives a fairly solid review of the recent past (from the 1990s).

Short History of the European Union

 An appendix to a World Information Centre on Energy (an anti-nuclear group) report entitled "Agenda 2000: Will it increase nuclear safety in Eastern Europe?". Go here for access to the whole report.

History of the WEU

An 'official' history of the WEU, a precursor of NATO which lived a twilight existence for most of its history until revived as the potential defence arm of the European Union. Go to WEU history on the left.