Introduction

  • Wilfried Loth
  • William Wallace
  • Wolfgang Wessels
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Abstract

At a time of far-reaching decisions about the future shape of the European Union, it is important to look back on the history of European integration. This history is rich with experience and insights which can help in addressing the problems facing the Union today. But above all, it enables us to understand the present as part of a historical process which is evidently not complete and may still move in many different directions.

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Notes

  1. 1.
    For the biography of Walter Hallstein, compare the outline by Theo M. Loch, ‘Walter Hallstein: Eine biographische Skizze’, Wege nach Europa: Walter Hallstein und die junge Generation (Andernach, 1967), pp. 5–47, and Wolfgang Ramonat, ‘Rationalist und Wegbereiter: Walter Hallstein’, Persönlichkeiten der europäischen Integration, eds Thomas Jansen and Dieter Mahnke (Bonn, 1981), pp. 337–78.Google Scholar
  2. 2.
    Compare Christoph Stillemunkes, ‘The discussion on European union in the German occupation zones’, Documents on the History of European Integration, Vol. 3, eds Walter Lipgens and Wilfried Loth (Berlin, 1988), pp. 441–565, here p. 454.Google Scholar
  3. 3.
    Compare Hans-Peter Schwarz, Adenauer: Der Aufstieg: 1876–1952 (Stuttgart, 1986), pp. 723–6.Google Scholar
  4. 5.
    Compare Hanns Jürgen Küsters, ‘Die Verhandlungen über das institutionelle System zur Gründung der Europäischen Gemeinschaft für Kohle und Stahl’, Die Anfänge des Schuman-Plans 1950/51, ed. Klaus Schwabe (Baden-Baden, 1988), pp. 73–102.Google Scholar
  5. 6.
    Compare Walter Hallstein, ‘Mein Chef Adenauer’, Konrad Adenauer und seine Zeit: Beiträge von Weg-und Zeitgenossen, eds Dieter Blumenwitz et al. (Stuttgart, 1976), pp. 132–6.Google Scholar

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  • Wilfried Loth
  • William Wallace
  • Wolfgang Wessels

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