The Netherlands and European Integration, 1950 to Present
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The Netherlands and European Integration, 1950 to Present

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The Netherlands and European Integration, 1950 to Present

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On 9 May 1950, France launched a revolutionary plan for supranational cooperation in Western Europe. The Netherlands was taken completely by surprise. In the decades that followed, European integration moved forward at an unprecedented pace, taking the Netherlands with it. Geography and the post-war world seemed to leave the country no other choice. European integration forced — and is still forcing — the Netherlands on a far-reaching 'journey to the continent'. For the Netherlands, European integration represents a difficult journey to a new old world that often seems far off. How has that journey progressed so far? Why did the Netherlands join the common European market and currency from the very beginning? Was this course inevitable? And where has it brought the country? Using new, international source material, The Netherlands and European Integration, 1950 to Present digs deeply into the history of the Netherlands in Europe — a subject that is today more topical than ever.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781040799147
Topic
History
Subtopic
International Relations
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Prologue: Dinner in Laeken (1989)
  8. Kohl’s great leap forward
  9. The surgeons of French realpolitik
  10. Exploiting Franco-German reconciliation
  11. The Netherlands between the Anglo-Saxons and the Teutons
  12. Journey to the continent
  13. 1 American concepts: Building Europe (1947-1949)
  14. Eternal division
  15. 2 Magical realism (1949-1951)
  16. Putting the country’s mental stability to the test
  17. The Germany memorandum
  18. Atlantis and bloc formation within the Western bloc
  19. The Netherlands taken by surprise
  20. Manufacturing a tranquillizer
  21. 3 The Beyen Plan (1951-1954)
  22. The letter from ‘the Ten’
  23. Red versus Catholic
  24. From Europe
  25. A game for insiders
  26. 4 Around Cologne cathedral (1954-1957)
  27. Adenauer’s Abendland
  28. Coordination through Europe’s back channels
  29. With the Benelux to Sicily
  30. Rebirth as a market
  31. The latest trend
  32. The Treaties of Rome
  33. 5 A Europe of conspiracies (1957-1968)
  34. Faust in Paris
  35. Rhetoric and intrigue
  36. Market expansion by a gentleman farmer
  37. Silence is golden
  38. 6 At home in the Basel biotope (1968-1974)
  39. American dreams
  40. An alternative loan circuit
  41. Holtrop’s logic
  42. Masters of the interim stage
  43. 7 Sturm und Drang (1974-1982)
  44. Late conversion
  45. The monetary trilemma
  46. Failure for Duisenberg
  47. The stick of free movement of capital
  48. 8 The hand of French-German friendship (1982-1989)
  49. A community united by blood
  50. Celebrating success and earning money
  51. Work in progress
  52. The Delors Report
  53. 9 After Strasbourg: A different party than expected (1989-1992)
  54. Piet’s work of art
  55. The consequences
  56. 10 European realities: Defining Europe after the Cold War
  57. The direction of integration
  58. The 1990s and after
  59. The tragedy of Maastricht and Amsterdam
  60. A rediscovery
  61. Epilogue: The call of Calypso
  62. Abbreviations
  63. Acknowledgements
  64. Sources and references
  65. Index
  66. Index of names
  67. Index of subjects