Table of Contents

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Prologue: Churchill’s Congress

Four Driving Forces

The Struggle for the Congress

Negotiations and Decisions

A Milestone

1 Foundation Years, 1948–1957

The Struggle over the Council of Europe

The Emergence of the Coal and Steel Community

The Drama of the EDC

The Difficult “Relance”

The Negotiations on Euratom and the European Economic Community

2 Formative Years, 1958–1963

The European Commission

The Struggle over the Free-Trade Area

The Construction of the Common Market

Fouchet Plans and British Membership Application

Accession Negotiations and Franco-German Treaty

The Success of the Economic Community

3 Crises of the Community of the Six, 1963–1969

Erhard’s Relaunch

Hallstein’s Offensive

The Crisis of the “Empty Chair”

The Time of the Arrangements

The Return of the British Question

France on the Way to Turning

4 Expansion and New Perspectives, 1969–1975

Turning Point: The Summit in The Hague

The Completion of the Common Market

The First Enlargement

The Project of Monetary Union

Political Cooperation

Crisis and New Beginning

5 Consolidation, 1976–1984

The Path to Direct Elections

The European Monetary System

Expansion to the South

The Defense of Détente

Thatcher, Genscher, and Colombo

6 The Era of Development, 1984–1992

The Single European Act

The Internal-Market Project

The Project for an Economic and Monetary Union

European Security and German Unity

The Path to Maastricht

7 From Maastricht to Nice, 1992–2001

Implementing the Monetary Union

The Northern Expansion

The Way to Amsterdam

Security and Eastern Policy

The Nice Complex

8 Constitutional Struggle and Euro Crisis, 2001–2012

The Eastward Enlargement

The Constitutional Treaty

From Prodi to Barroso

The Constitutional Crisis

The Euro Crisis

Conclusion: The Future of the Union

Afterword

The European Parliament 1979–2014: Party memberships

The European Parliament 1979–2014: Presidents

The Presidents of the High Authority and the Commissions

Sources

Bibliography

Index