On this episode, I chat with <a href="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/political-science/people/academic-teaching-and-research-staff/dr-michal-ovadek" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dr Michal Ovadek</a>, Assistant Professor in European Institutions, Politics and Policy in the Department of Political Science at University College London about <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13501763.2024.2434071" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">his recent research</a> (co-authored with Jonathan Golub)&nbsp;on the Paris Summit of 1974, a meeting of EEC heads of state and government convened at the invitation of the then president of French Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and its impact on institutional change and decision-making in the EU thereafter.

The Paris Summit of 1974 and Its Impact on EU Institutional Change and Decision-Making

On this episode, <a href="https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/cw-van-leeuwen" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dr Karin van Leeuwen</a>, Assistant Professor of European Political History at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, discusses <a href="https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/en/publications/ordering-through-competition-pieter-verloren-van-themaat-and-soci" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">her recent work</a> on the influence of social democratic thinking on competition policy in the early postwar period with a particular focus on the Netherlands and the creeping role of Europe in the formulation of Dutch competition policy.

Ordering Through Competition? Social-Democratic Thinking About Competition in Postwar Netherlands

On this episode, I move south to Italy of the 1950s to explore how <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/16118944241265578" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">the Italian media portrayed the early European integration process and in particular the groundbreaking Treaties of Rome</a> signed on 25 March 1957 in the Italian capital. My guest is <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrea-carlo-martinez/?originalSubdomain=it" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Andrea Carlo Martinez, a journalist and PhD candidate at LMU</a> in Munich Germany, who is doing a doctorate in the history of Italian Euroscepticism from the Treaties of Rome.

Italian Media Responses to the 1957 Treaties of Rome

On this episode, I focus on the end of the British empire and crucial and sometimes vexing and complex questions of nationality, statelessness and refugeehood. I am joined by <a href="https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/mosa/english/staff/00108052" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dr Sara Cosemans</a>, a Postdoctoral Fellow at KU Leuven in Belgium, who has published on various aspects of postwar migration, including a monograph on Sikh migration to Belgium and several <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02619288.2021.1967752" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">articles on refugee resettlement in the 1970s</a>, focusing on the formation of the Ugandan Asian and Vietnamese diasporas.

Nationality, Statelessness, & Refugeehood after Empire: British East African Asians

On this episode, we shift our focus from the sometimes-mundane examination of European integration policies and politics to arguably the more exciting world of <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/contemporary-european-history/article/power-is-in-the-streets-protest-and-militancy-in-france-italy-and-west-germany-19681979/0121E30E8751194D73AD1F0D124E1667" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">protest and militancy that rocked many European states from the late 1960s through to the end of the 1970s</a>. My guest on this episode is <a href="https://www.lucaprovenzano.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dr Luca Provenzano</a>, a Postdoctoral Researcher in the History of Modernity and Society Research Group at KU Leuven in Belgium.

Protest and Militancy in France, Italy and West Germany, 1968–1979

On this episode, I shift between the 1930s and the 1980s to explore <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/contemporary-european-history/article/personalism-and-european-integration-jacques-delors-and-the-legacy-of-the-1930s/3CEB81039500C28D6A7A9EE1C26CA9DE" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">the influence of an anti-liberal, anti-socialist intellectual movement on the European integration process</a> during the European Commission presidency of Jacques Delors with <a href="https://www.unipd.it/en/contatti/rubrica/?detail=Y&amp;ruolo=1&amp;checkout=cerca&amp;persona=ZACCARIA&amp;key=3776C7C37655D06BDE1AC2D8DB9998CA" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dr Benedetto Zaccaria</a>, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies at the University of Padova, Italy.

European Integration, Jacques Delors and the Legacy of the 1930s

On this episode, we turn to one of the most protracted conflicts of the postwar period, namely the conflict in Northern Ireland, more commonly referred to as the Troubles and the tortuous road to peace which culminated in the groundbreaking Good Friday Agreement signed in 1998. To discuss the <a href="https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/159187/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">European dimension of the peace talks</a>, I am joined by <a href="https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/laganag" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dr Giada Lagana</a>, a Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow and a Lecturer in Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Cardiff University in Wales.

The European Dimension of the ‘talks process’ in Northern Ireland

On this episode, I discuss the <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/16118944241265585?journalCode=meha" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">British Labour group of MEPs in the European Parliament</a> from the late 1970s to the early 1990s with <a href="https://www.helsinki.fi/en/helsinki-collegium-advanced-studies/people/current-fellows" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dr William King</a>, a Core Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (HCAS), University of Helsinki, who is currently finishing a book manuscript on the British Labour Group and the European Parliament, 1979-1994.

Sceptics, Enthusiasts, or Architects? The British Labour Group, the European Parliament and Workers’ Rights, 1979–1989

On this episode, I discuss <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/16118944241265575" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">veterans movements and the European integration process</a> of the 1950s and early 1960s with <a href="https://www.his-online.de/personen/personen-detail/?tx_persons_persons%5Bcontroller%5D=Person&amp;tx_persons_persons%5Bperson%5D=2889&amp;cHash=f9f525c7579dc2f11d684a3e95700523" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Alexander Hobe</a>, a research associate at the Hamburg Institute of Social Research and a PhD student at Humboldt University in Berlin where his dissertation focuses on the democratization of the veterans’ movement in West Germany and France in the post-war period, with a particular attention to transnational links between both movements.

Wehrmacht Veterans and European Integration in the 1950s

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