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Wolfram Kaiser
The sixth Research Conference of the European
Community Liaison Committee in Oxford
The European Union Liaison Committee of Historians has
organised five research conferences since its inception in 1982. They
have been on key themes relating to the development of the European
communities in the postwar period. The proceedings of each
conference has been published in a major joint venture by Bruylant
(Brussels), Giuffrè (Milan), Librairie Générale de Droit et de
Jurisprudence (Paris) and Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft (Baden-
Baden). These publications provide valuable multilingual research
tools for scholars and also provide new insights and perspectives upon
the history of postwar European integration efforts.
The sixth research conference will take place in the University of
Oxford, United Kingdom, in 1996. The theme of this conference
will be the enlargement, deepening and completion debates that took
place between 1957 and 1963. It will cover the major national
perspectives towards these questions, as well as particular economic,
agricultural, political (Fouchet Plan) and enlargement questions that
dominated the Community history of these years. The interest and
perceptions of the United States and of the Soviet Union in the Europe
of the Six will also be discussed, as these were years of considerable
international tension and change, marked, for example, by the second
Berlin crisis, by technological advances in East and West; and by
Cuban missile crisis.
Such research conferences enable historians to make full use of the
archival sources now available in many European countries, as well
as of the Community’s own historical archive. The commitment of the
European Commission to a dispassionate and full understanding of
postwar European developments has underpinned the ability of
successive teams of historians to organise these conferences.
Anne DEIGHTON
For further information, please contact Dr. Anne Deighton,
St. Antony’s College, Oxford, OX2 6JF - UK (fax - 01865-274478)