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Notices – Informations – Mitteilungen
Conference on ”Actors and Policies in the European Integration
from the implementation of the Rome Treaties to the creation of the
‘snake’ (1958-1972)”
Florence, 28, 29 and 30 November 2002
Historical research on the European integration has mainly focussed its attention on
the period between the 1940s and the 1960s, but from the 1960s, with the creation
and strengthening of the European institutions, the historical analyses dealing only
with the policies pursued by the national governments , diplomacies, etc. seem no
longer completely satisfactory in order to fully understand the European integration
process. Not only the European Commission or the European Parliament tried to
assert themselves as autonomous actors, which could work out ‘European’ policies
independently from the governments of the ”six”, but also interest groups and political
forces began to organise themselves as European entities. Such an important
development seems to offer to the historians an opportunity to further a new
approach to the History of the European integration. To that end the next conference
organised by the Liaison Committee of Historians will focus its attention on
those topic.
The conference, which will held in Florence in November 2002, will be organised
into five sections:
1. Institutional actors, national governments and EC decision-making process
2. The Birth and Consolidation of a European political world
3. Interest and pressure groups
4. The EC ‘internal’ policies
5. The EC ‘external’ policies
Form information contact:
Prof. Antonio Varsori –
Dipartimento di Studi sullo Stato –
Facoltà di Scienze Politiche –
Via Laura 48 – 50121 FIRENZE –
ITALY –
e-mail: varsori@unifi.it