Bulletin n. 1/2017
June 2017
INDICE
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
  • Švik Peter
    Early European Summitry and the Making of the Council of Europe
    in Journal of European Integration History , vol. 22, n. 1 ,  2016 ,  107-124
    After considerable time, the paper revisits the issue of inception of the Council of Europe. The existing studies prevailingly focused on internal-external linkages of foreign policy-making in specific national cases. This article, in contrast, stresses the importance and special agency which the early European summitry, i.e. the high-level inter-ministerial meetings at first within the Brussels pact (June 1948-January 1949) and later within the enlarged ten-power framework (May 1949), have had for the creation of the Council. The article also points out the limited, but yet highly-visible role the Joint International Committee of the Movements for European Unity played in the story. In its conclusions, the article calls for a more balanced extrapolation of the events surrounding the Council’s establishment and suggests that the French and British positions on further development of integration processes were, at the time, less opposed that it is traditionally supposed.
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