The EU History Podcast

On this episode, I chat with Dr Michal Ovadek, Assistant Professor in European Institutions, Politics and Policy in the Department of Political Science at University College London about his recent research (co-authored with Jonathan Golub) 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Dr Karin van Leeuwen, Assistant Professor of European Political History at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, discusses her recent work 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, I move south to Italy of the 1950s to explore how the Italian media portrayed the early European integration process and in particular the groundbreaking Treaties of Rome signed on 25 March 1957 in the Italian capital. My guest is Andrea Carlo Martinez, a journalist and PhD candidate at LMU in Munich Germany, who is doing a doctorate in the history of Italian Euroscepticism from the Treaties of Rome. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Dr Sara Cosemans, 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 articles on refugee resettlement in the 1970s, focusing on the formation of the Ugandan Asian and Vietnamese diasporas. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 protest and militancy that rocked many European states from the late 1960s through to the end of the 1970s. My guest on this episode is Dr Luca Provenzano, a Postdoctoral Researcher in the History of Modernity and Society Research Group at KU Leuven in Belgium. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, I shift between the 1930s and the 1980s to explore the influence of an anti-liberal, anti-socialist intellectual movement on the European integration process during the European Commission presidency of Jacques Delors with Dr Benedetto Zaccaria, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies at the University of Padova, Italy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 European dimension of the peace talks, I am joined by Dr Giada Lagana, a Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow and a Lecturer in Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Cardiff University in Wales. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, I discuss the British Labour group of MEPs in the European Parliament from the late 1970s to the early 1990s with Dr William King, 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, I discuss veterans movements and the European integration process of the 1950s and early 1960s with Alexander Hobe, 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, I chat with PhD Researcher, David Irion, research associate in the DFG research group Cooperation and Competition in the Sciences affiliated with the Chair of Modern and Contemporary History at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany, about his recently published article on the EU's research programmes in the 1980s in the context of increasing research and technological competition vis-à-vis Europe-Japan-USA. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.