1st Edition
Transnational Socialism and European Integration The Socialist Group in the Early European Parliament
By Brian Shaev
Copyright 2026
442 Pages
by
Routledge
442 Pages
by
Routledge
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This history of the Socialist Group in the early European Parliament covers its role in six policy areas that formed the core of postwar European integration: foreign policy, democracy and institutions, social policy, agriculture, migration and free movement, and cartel and competition policy.
By the early 1960s, Socialist Group members had laboriously constructed an alternative path for... Read more
Introduction
1. Foreign Policy
2. Democracy and Institutions
3. Social Policy
4. Agriculture
5. Migration and Free Movement
6. Cartel and Competition Policy
Conclusion
Biography
Brian Shaev is Assistant Professor in History and European Union Studies at Leiden University. He has published widely on the history of social democracy and European integration, including on the Schuman Plan, the Algerian War, migration, international trade, welfare policy, transnationalism, and competition policy.
