The EU History Podcast
The EU History Podcast explores cutting-edge research on the European Union's long history. It is hosted by Prof. Michael J. Geary, an Irish native and Jean Monnet Chair in EU History at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). The show features scholarly discussion and expert perspectives on how the EU and its predecessors developed over time. The Jean Monnet Chair is co-funded by the European Union's Erasmus+ Programme.
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The Paris Summit of 1974 and Its Impact on EU Institutional Change and Decision-Making
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'Es
Ordering Through Competition? Social-Democratic Thinking About Competition in Postwar Netherlands
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
Italian Media Responses to the 1957 Treaties of Rome
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 t
Nationality, Statelessness, & Refugeehood after Empire: British East African Asians
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 th
Protest and Militancy in France, Italy and West Germany, 1968–1979
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
European Integration, Jacques Delors and the Legacy of the 1930s
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 A
The European Dimension of the ‘talks process’ in Northern Ireland
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 an
Sceptics, Enthusiasts, or Architects? The British Labour Group, the European Parliament and Workers’ Rights, 1979–1989
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 mor
Wehrmacht Veterans and European Integration in the 1950s
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 at
Transformation through Mutual Europeanisation - The Framework Programmes of the European Communities in the 1980s
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 co
Some Differences, Many Similarities: Comparing Europe's Responses to the 1973 Oil Crisis and the 2022 Gas Crisis
On this episode, I chat with Dr Lucas Schramm, senior researcher and lecturer at the Geschwister Scholl Institute of Political Science at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany about his recently published article on the 1973 oil shock and the 2022 energy crisis. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Czechoslovakia-European Relations During the 'Long 1970s'
On this episode of the EU History Podcast, I am joined by Dr Pavel Szobi, an economic historian who is currently working at the Institute of International Studies at Charles University in Prague to discuss the fascinating history Czechoslovakia pan-European relations during the 'Long 1970s'. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Marcinelle Mining Disaster, European Integration & the Emergence of a European Risk Society in the 1950s
On this episode, I chat with Siegfried Evens, a historian specialized in the history of risk and disaster, who is currently a PhD researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, where we discuss the worst mining disaster in Belgian history and the seeds of a European risk society after 1956. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Between the Soviet Union and Europe: Poland in the 1970s
On this episode of the EU History Podcast, Dr Aleksandra Komornicka, Assistant Professor in post-war European history at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, discusses her award-winning article ‘The Unity of Europe is inevitable’: Poland and the European Economic Community in the 1970s' and the fascinating interaction between Polish-EEC-USSR relations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy f
Britain's Road to Europe: Women Against the Common Market
On this episode, Dr Richard Johnson, Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics & International Relations, Queen Mary University of London discusses the fascinating interest group, Women Against the Common Market, and their efforts to keep Britain out of the EEC in the early 1970s. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
European Integration, Banking Regulation and Supervision and the Growth of Capitalism in the late 1970s and early 1980s
On this episode of the EU History Podcast, I discuss banking, capitalism, the Europeans and regulation in the 1970s and early 1980s with Dr Alexis Drach, Assistant Professor in Modern Economic History, Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
German Reunification, Margaret Thatcher and British Public Opinion
On this episode of the EU History Podcast, I discuss German reunification, Margaret Thatcher and British public opinion with Dr Stuart Smedley, Research Manager in the Ipsos U.K. Public Affairs Government and Society team and a Visiting Fellow in the University of Southampton Department of Politics and International Relations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The EEC, the Soviet Union and Romania's 'Turn to the West'
In this episode of the EU History Podcast, Dr Elena Dragomir, a researcher at the Valahia University of Târgoviște, Romania discusses the fascinatingly complex political and trade relationship between the European Economic Community, the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance and Romania from the late 1950s to the mid-1970s. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Neoliberal Thinkers and European Integration in the 1980s
On this episode of the EU History Podcast, Dr Roberto Ventresca, Jean Monnet Fellow at the EUI in Florence, discusses his research into neoliberal thinkers, Mont Pelerin Society (MPS) and European integration in the 1980s and early 1990s. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The 1975 British Referendum on EEC membership
On this episode I am joined by Dr Lindsay Aqui, Research Fellow at the University of Westminster to discuss her work on the fascinating 1975 British referendum on Britain's continued membership of the European Economic Community / the Common Market. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Europeanisation of British food in the 1960s and early 1970s
This episode of the EU History Podcast focuses on Dr Joanne Hollows' fascinating article 'Enthusing About Green Peppers: the Europeanization of British Food Culture in Post-war Britain, 1960–1975' published in Contemporary British History in 2021. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France, and the European Community
This episode of the EU History Podcast discusses historian Dr Megan Brown's fascinating new book, The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France, and the European Community (Harvard University Press, 2022). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
