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 Larsen (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