Richard Griffiths invites the listener to look closer at the history and the underlying reasons behind the main developments of European integration. He passionately 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. Inhoud College 1 H1. The First Supranational Community. The European Coal and Steel Community H2. A Missed Chance. The European Defence Community College 2 H3. The Creation of the European Economic Community. The Rome Treaties H4. Reactive Nationalism? De Gaulle and Europe College 3 H5. Reactive Nationalism? The British Membership Problem H6. 1992. The Completion of the Internal Market College 4 H7. The European union. Economic and Monetary union H8. A Family of Twenty-five. EU Enlargement