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Richard Griffiths passionately invites the listener to look closer at the history and the underlying reasons behind the main developments of European integration. He presents a history that is richer and intellectually more satisfying than much of the elegiac literature on the European Union that passes for history. A solid and humorous account on the making of the Union.

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Chapter 1: The First Supranational Community: The European Coal and Steel Community
Chapter 2: A Missed Chance: The European Defence Community

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Chapter 3: The Creation of the European Economic Community: The Rome Treaties
Chapter 4: Reactive Nationalism? De Gaulle and Europe

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Chapter 5: Reactive Nationalism? The British Membership Problem
Chapter 6: 1992. The Completion of the Internal Market

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Chapter 7: The European Union. Economic and Monetary Union
Chapter 8: A Family of Twenty-five. EU Enlargement

Professor dr. Richard T. Griffiths (1948) obtained his BSc(Econ) in Economic History and Russian Studies from University College Swansea (1970) and his PhD in History from Cambridge University (1977).
He taught European Studies at UMIST (Manchester) before being appointed to the chair of Economic and Social History at the Free University, Amsterdam. In 1987 he became Professor of Contemporary History at the European University Institute, Florence, where he directed the Institute?s research project of the history of European integration. In 1995 he returned to the Netherlands as professor of Economic and Social History at Leiden University.
Professor Griffiths undertakes research on 19th and 20th century economic history and on historical and contemporary aspects of European integration. His recent works include European Reconstruction: a comparison between post-0war Europe and post-Soviet Russia (Moscow, 2003, in Russian) and Europe?s First Constitution: the European Political Community, 1952-1954 (London, 2000).