Book Reviews
Of Grand Designs and Ever Closer Unions: The Unfinished History of European Integration
„Le nationalisme, c’est la guerre”. These words, famously uttered by François Mitterrand in his address to the European Parliament from 1995, are invoked by Frans Timmermans, the former Vice-President of the European Commission, in the foreword to The Unfinished History of European Integration (7). At a time of “the end of history,” when calls for strengthening Europe’s unity and strategic autonomy as the only means of survival in an increasingly unstable world are met with nationalist backlash, studying the history of European integration – and drawing lessons from it – seems pertinent as ever.
9.09.2025
