Chapter 2 The European Community from 1945 to 1985

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Chapter 2The European Communityfrom 1945 to 1985

• Cini (ed.) European Union Politics, 2nd edition
• OUP Online Teaching Resources

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Structure of the Lecture

• Europe after the Second World War
• From the ECSC to the EEC
• The Emergence of Summits
• Lessons from the Formative Decades of European
  Integration

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Europe after the Second World War

• The devastating consequences of WWII
• The necessity of economic re-construction
• Post-war settlement Europe divided
• The German question
• How to avoid another war in Europe?
• The Cold War
• The ideological division
• Growing military confrontation

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From the ECSC to the EEC

• Federalism as an idea and a movement
• The Shuman Plan and the ECSC
• What is the Community idea?
• The Shuman Plan
• The ECSC and sectoral economic integration

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From the ECSC to the EEC

• The Treaty of Rome
• The EEC and the EURATOM
• Institutional innovation
• Policy extension CAP, etc.

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The Emergence of Summits

• The Luxembourg Compromise
• The Hague Summit
• Proposed the first enlargement of the EC
• Proposed the cooperation of monetary affairs
• Proposed the ultimate goal of political union

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The Emergence of Summits

• The Establishment of the European Council
• The Euro-Sclerosis in the 1970s and 1980s
• The European Council in 1984

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Lessons from the Formative Decades of European
Integration

• Integration as a gradual process
• Ups and downs in the formative decades
• The advantages of sectoral economic integration
• The Community method
• Array of complex interactions
• Interactions among the member states
• External context as an important factor