The European Parliament’s identity discourse and Eastern Europe, 1974-2004

Angelis, Emma De

doi:10.5771/0947-9511-2011-1-103

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“…This conflation of Europe and the EC became a distinctive feature of the EP's discourse on European identity during the Cold War. 46 Habsburg's speech in 1980 was telling:…”

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Champion of Human Rights: The European Parliament and the Helsinki Process

Gfeller

2014

Journal of Contemporary History

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This article investigates the involvement of the European Parliament – one of today’s key European Union institutions – in human rights in the context of East–West relations during the 1970s and 1980s. It shows that the European Parliament used symbolic politics to style itself as champion of human rights in Europe and thus assert itself in two partially overlapping political arenas: the European Community and the broader Western European political arena. Using untapped archival materials, this study also suggests that in pursuing this goal European parliamentarians became part of the so-called transnational ‘Helsinki network’ which promoted respect for human rights in the Soviet bloc and contributed to raising the salience of this topic in international affairs.

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Champion of Human Rights: The European Parliament and the Helsinki Process

Gfeller

2014

Journal of Contemporary History

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“…Strasbourg assembly to the issue of democracy, both of which were tendencies that encouraged MEPs to construct an image and a sense of what it meant to be 'European' that often played upon the notion of a European 'other' embodied by the undemocratic, Communist countries beyond the Iron Curtain which had not undergone the same transformative process experienced by EC member states. 12 The whole institutional set up of the post-1975 Community was thus much more open to cold war questions than the early EEC had been.…”

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The new Cold War and the Expansion of the European Community – a Nexus?

Ludlow¹

2014

The Institutions and Dynamics of the European Community, 1973-83

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Enlargement and the Historical Origins of the European Community's Democratic Identity, 1961–1978

Angelis

Karamouzi

2016

Contemporary European History

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This article examines how and when democracy entered the discursive politics of the Community to finally become one of the fundamental tenets of European political identity -and in the process influenced how decision-makers approached the question of enlargement. Building on multiple archival sources, the article traces how all three Community institutions (Commission, Council and the European Parliament) legitimized the expansion and continuation of the process of European integration through the discursive construction of democracy. It will focus on the debates elicited by the attempts of Southern European countries to accede to the EEC in the 1960s and 1970s: the rebuttal of Spain's initial overtures in 1962, the challenge of Greece -the Community's first Associate member -being taken over by a military dictatorship in 1967, the democratizing of Greece, Spain and Portugal after the fall of their respective dictatorships in the 1970s and finally the formalisastion of such democratic ideas in the Declaration

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The European Parliament’s identity discourse and Eastern Europe, 1974-2004

Cited by 4 publications

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Champion of Human Rights: The European Parliament and the Helsinki Process

Champion of Human Rights: The European Parliament and the Helsinki Process

The new Cold War and the Expansion of the European Community – a Nexus?

Enlargement and the Historical Origins of the European Community's Democratic Identity, 1961–1978

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