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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre

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A unique research hub on European cooperation and integration. We coordinate networks of historians, facilitate the use of primary sources and increase public interest in the history of European integration 🌐 loom.ly/ZF8Zq7w

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European University Institute @eui-eu.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In the 1970-80s, the EC experimented with models, experts & new approaches to futures research. Margaret Pulk @eui-history.bsky.social explores what happened when researchers and policymakers disagreed on what it could tell them. Read: loom.ly/uKPEQOg
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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
👋 Welcome to our new visiting fellow, Selina Breitbach (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)! She researches European cooperation in migrant training, with focus on educational programs for Turkish and Italian workers to West Germany. Be our next visiting Fellow? 👉 loom.ly/u_hjJE4
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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🇪🇺 What does it mean to be European? For #EuropeanHeritageDays, revisit @ @eui-history.bsky.social alumna Oriane Calligaro's thesis on how notions of "Europeanness" have been negotiated and promoted since the 1950s. 📖 loom.ly/Dc26pww
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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
📣LAST DAYS: Call for Applications for the European Court of Auditors Postgraduate Research Grant Programme. Interested in EU’s public finances and policies? This is for you! 📆Deadline is 6 October More info 👉 loom.ly/-Y5gQL8 @euauditors.bsky.social ‬ @eui-euarchives.bsky.social ‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬
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European Court of Auditors Postgraduate Research Grant Programme
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Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol @manumourlon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We discovered exciting new ideas on a wide & eclectic range of topics, from EU-Japan relations to music, from the EU budget to the film industry, from euroscepticisms to social policy. Good luck to all with your next steps & thanks once more to discussants for creating a very supportive atmosphere!
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Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol @manumourlon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The roundtable on EU history and governance we had @eui-stg.bsky.social was another thought-provoking moment of the two days: many thanks to Johanna Mair (also for welcoming us in Palazzo Buontalenti), Kristin Fabbe, Grace Ballor, and the audience for engaging in the debate.
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Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol @manumourlon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It was a pleasure welcoming a new fantastic group of researchers last week @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social to discuss their ongoing projects: www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=...
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Graduate researchers explore new perspectives on European integration history
A wide range of questions, sources, methods and perspectives characterised the work presented by early career scholars at the Alcide De Gasperi Centres Sevent
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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
💶 30 years ago, the @cor.europa.eu adopted its Opinion on Economic and Monetary Union. Proof that the debate on EMU was not limited to national governments, monetary policy and macroeconomic convergence. Explore all the documents in the @eui-euarchives.bsky.social 👉 ‬‬‬‬‬https://loom.ly/QuuEBgk
HAEU, CdR-223
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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🇸🇳🤝🇪🇺 The first @eib.org project in Senegal was signed 60 years ago. It was aimed at building a fertiliser factory at M’Bao and was one of EIB’s earliest efforts to support economic development in Africa. The SIES project planted the seeds of one of Senegal’s biggest industrial complexes.
HAEU, BEI-1699_06HAEU, BEI-1699_05HAEU, BEI-1699_14
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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🎉 That's a wrap on the VII Annual Graduate Conference on the History of European Integration! Two days filled with exchanges and plenty of new questions and approaches to explore. Thanks to all who made it possible!
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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Day 2 of the ADG Annual Conference on History of European Integration is underway‼️ Get a glimpse of today’s programme 👀
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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🙌 The Alcide de Gasperi Annual Conference is in full swing. Don’t miss the public roundtable “Why (EU) history matters for today’s governance?” at 17.30 in @eui-stg.bsky.social More to come tomorrow!
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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Can institutions carry the wisdom of generations? Jean Monnet believed so, as stated in his speech at the inaugural session of the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community on 11 September 1952. Discover all the ECSC documents at the @eui-euarchives.bsky.social ➡️ loom.ly/0_frP5Y
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Historical Archives of the European Union @eui-euarchives.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
📢 How can history help us govern better? Join the interdisciplinary roundtable coming up at the School of Transnational Governance. 📅 14 September | 🕠 17:30 CEST 📍 Altiero Spinelli Amphitheatre, Florence 👉 Register here: loom.ly/MpE4GNc #HistoryMatters #EuropeanIntegration
Negotiators for the Treaty of Versailles, 1919, by Helen Johns Kirtland, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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Historical Archives of the European Union @eui-euarchives.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
📅 SAVE THE DATE | 16 October 🎉 20 years of ECA–EUI Research Grants! Join researchers, archivists & practitioners to explore the history and future of EU finances, audit and accountability. 🇪🇺📚 📍 Hybrid | 09:30–16:45 CEST 👉 loom.ly/mnON0sI
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EU public finances & accountability
Celebrating 20 years of ECA research support at the Historical Archives of the European Union, this anniversary workshop brings together former ECA–EUI Research Grant holders, archivists, academics and practitioners to reflect on two decades of research into European public finances and accountability. With perspectives from history, political science, economics and public audit, the workshop aims to consider how research and past experience can inform future reforms and research agendas.
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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
How can research on the history of European integration help us address current issues? See you at the @eui-stg.bsky.social on September 14 to explore the answer! ➡️Info loom.ly/W5U6Bko 👇
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Why (EU) history matters for today’s governance?
A multidisciplinary discussion on how and why research on European integration history can inform approaches to the many challenges of today
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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
History can shed light on today’s geopolitical challenges Check out this timely interview with our Scientific Coordinator, @flaviacanestrini.bsky.social, on the historical roots of US extraterritorial sanctions👇
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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🎓 What is the next generation of historians researching? The ADG Annual Graduate Conference is here to bring together PhD students and early-career researchers working on the history of European integration. 🔎 Discover the full programme of this year’s edition loom.ly/CZLlOe4
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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Eye-opening, interdisciplinary and long-lasting 📜 Read the interview with our Alumna Diana Natermann on her #PhD journey in our department 👉 loom.ly/2e6_RjQ 🎓 Interested in our doctoral programme? Check the programme's webpage 👉 loom.ly/pvk17dc ⏰ Applications opening in early November 2026
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Eye-opening, interdisciplinary and long-lasting: Diana Natermann
Diana Natermann is an EUI PhD alumna in History 20112015 She is Assistant Professor in European Political History at Maastricht University and returned to the
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Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol @manumourlon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
In now about 10 days we will host @eui-eu.bsky.social our @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social Annual Graduate Conference in the history of European cooperation and integration. The programme is as rich as ever, and promises exciting discussions ⤵️
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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🤔🇪🇺 Why does (EU) history matter to all? Join us in Florence for a public roundtable exploring how research on European integration can help us understand the challenges of today's world. 📅 14 September, 17:30 📍 @eui-stg.bsky.social 📝 Register: loom.ly/W5U6Bko
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Why (EU) history matters for today’s governance?
A multidisciplinary discussion on how and why research on European integration history can inform approaches to the many challenges of today
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European University Institute @eui-eu.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
🏦 Max Weber Fellow @flaviacanestrini.bsky.social @eui-history.bsky.social explores the US sanctions adapted to increasingly globalised markets between the end of the 1970s & the 1980s. Full interview 🔗 loom.ly/haoyHlM
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Historical Archives of the European Union @eui-euarchives.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
#OTD in 1943 the first congress of the Italian Movement for the European Federation adopted Spinelli's motion arguing that only a democratic European federation could guarantee peace, freedom and the rule of law. Read Spinelli's motion, preserved at the HAEU: loom.ly/bY6_-nY
"La struttura federalistica costituisce la condizione necessaria per lo sviluppo di una vita politica libera"La structure fédéraliste est la condition indispensable au développement d'une vie politique libreThe federalist structure constitutes the necessary condition for the development of a free political life.Caratteri e scopi del movimento federalist europeo (HAEU AS-3, p.21)
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Historical Archives of the European Union @eui-euarchives.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
📢 NEW FONDS AVAILABLE! The first historical records of the EU Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) are now digitally accessible at the Historical Archives of the European Union, for the years 1994 and 1995. 🔗 Read more: loom.ly/W_5ysqM #EUIPO #Archives
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EU Intellectual Property Office fonds digitally accessible at the Archives
The first historical records of the European Union Intellectual Property Office, dating from 1994 and 1995, are now available online at the Historical Archive
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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🇮🇪 Did you know that Ireland applied twice before being accepted into the European Communities? Finally, on January 22, 1972, Ireland signed the Treaty of Accession. 📂Interested in the history of European integration? Explore the holdings of the @eui-euarchives.bsky.social 👉 loom.ly/Rt048eE
Signing of the accession treaty for Ireland. HAEU, BO-44-I.8
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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
💡 New questions. New sources. New ways of doing European history The ADG Annual Graduate Conference returns on 14-15 September, bringing together early-career scholars to discuss its latest research on the history of European integration. +info: loom.ly/CZLlOe4 📍@eui-eu.bsky.social ⬇️
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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
🇪🇺 30 years ago, Émile Noël passed away Secretary-General of the European Commission and also President of the @eui-eu.bsky.social. He was a quiet architect who helped steer the EU project from its early decades and whose legacy speaks for him. Explore his archives in loom.ly/mVJWkas
Portrait of the President of the European University Institute, Emile Noël, during his speech in the XII Jean Monnet Conference, 1989. HAEU, EUI-694-I.9
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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
🇪🇺 #OnThisDay in 1954, Alcide De Gasperi passed away. Italian politician and EU pioneer, De Gasperi devoted his life to public service and believed that a united Europe was key for a lasting peace. Explore his life and legacy at @eui-euarchives.bsky.social: loom.ly/2ngTBsU
International celebration in honour of Alcide De Gasperi, in Trento. HAEU, GZ 581
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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
🏔️ What connected a small Austrian alp village to European integration? Otto Molden In 1945, he founded the European Forum Alpbach, a meeting place for debate, democracy, and European ideas. 📜 Find out more about his life through his personal fonds in @eui-euarchives.bsky.social: loom.ly/Jc03GR8
Meeting in a mountain hut, 1980. HAEU, OM-31-I.1Otto Molden at the appointment ceremony as honorary citizen of Alpbach, 1979. HAEU, OM-31-I.2
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Historical Archives of the European Union @eui-euarchives.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
📆The Historical Archives of the European Union and the European University Institute will be closed for summer break from 1-16 August, inclusive. 🗃️All on-site services will resume on Monday, 17 August. 🖥️Take advantage of our online database: loom.ly/m6xU-js ⛱️🌲Enjoy the break!
Banner of lotus flowers with text: Summer Closure
The Historical Archives of the European Union and the 
European University Institute will be closed for summer break from 1 - 16 August, inclusive.
The reading room at the Archives will reopen on 17 August.
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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
🧳 Passport packed? Today's summer travels across Europe often feel effortless. But the idea of border-free movement has a longer history even before Schengen. Check this and enjoy your holidays 👇
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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
🎓Long before Erasmus, Europeans were already debating a European university Among the initiatives that emerged from these debates was the @collegeofeurope.bsky.social in Bruges, which opened its doors in 1950. 📜Explore the history of European integration through the @eui-euarchives.bsky.social
Le Collège d’Europe à Bruges : Ses Origines (The College of Europe in Bruges: Its Origins), published by the College of Europe in Bruges, 1958. HAEU, ME/DOC-188HAEU, ME-801
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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
🇪🇸🇵🇹🇪🇺 This year marks the 40th anniversary of Spain and Portugal’s EU accession in 1986 The road formally began with this letter from Spanish Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez requested the opening of negotiations. 📜Discover more about the history of European integration at @eui-euarchives.bsky.social
Cartoon by Fritz Behrendt on the EEC’s southern enlargement (1980) Copyright: © Fritz Behrendt This document is available at www.cvce.euLetter from Adolfo Suárez to Henri Simonet, 26 July 1977. HAEU, CM5/ADH-1471.
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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
⚽Still recovering from the #WorldCup final? Here's a football flashback from the @eui-euarchives.bsky.social In 1999, the EUI football team travelled to Antwerp to take part in the first European University Championship Football. 😉History preserved the photo, (un)fortunately not the score #EUI50
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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
🇪🇺 Today marks the anniversary of Simone Veil's inaugural speech as President of the European Parliament. Following the first direct European elections in June 1979, she became the first woman elected to its presidency. 📜 Read the full speech at @eui-euarchives.bsky.social loom.ly/B_6-Fxs
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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
⚽ Before #Bosman, there was Donà v Mantero Nearly 20 years before the #Bosman ruling, in 1976 the @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social delivered the Donà v Mantero landmark judgement that helped lay the foundations of modern sports law and free movement in football. 📜 Learn more in loom.ly/jNfu6s8
Gaetano Donà / Mario Mantero. CJUE-1807
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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
More records = More sources for understanding Europe’s past This year, the @ec.europa.eu, @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social, @ema.europa.eu and many others deposited new archival files at the @eui-euarchives.bsky.social If you are researching EU’s history, explore our fonds: loom.ly/Z1K3Sa0
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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
📘 The economic policeman of the planet Our Scientific Coordinator @flaviacanestrini.bsky.social traces the history of US sanctions policy since the 1970s, focusing on Iran and showing how financial tools have enabled the US to project power beyond its borders. Read more in loom.ly/MFFUXyM
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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
All aboard! 65 years ago, the @eib.org financed one of its earliest railway projects, supporting the electrification of the North–South route in Germany. A step toward economic integration and international connectivity in postwar Europe. Next stop: @eui-euarchives.bsky.social loom.ly/7mw8EAE
HAEU, BEI-2165
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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
What was the “prehistory” of the @eib.org? The foundations were laid on this day in 1956, during the Intergovernmental Conference that agreed to create a financial instrument to support European economic integration. Discover more in @eui-euarchives.bsky.social loom.ly/P9rwXh8
Proposal to establish a European investment fund: HAEU, BEI-1001
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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Towards a European common passport In 1981, the EC agreed on a uniform passport format to strengthen European identity and ease movement. With its distinctive burgundy cover, it marked a first step towards a deeper integration. Explore the @eui-euarchives.bsky.social for more loom.ly/R5QAKE4
CEUE_SEGE-SI(1981)1030
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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
🎓 Getting ready for the #EUI Degree Conferring Ceremony 2026 Join us in celebrating the achievements of our #PhD researchers! 🔴 Watch the livestream starting at 15.00 CEST today 🎥 loom.ly/ENWwZRE 👏 #PhDone #PhDlife #AcademicLife @eui-eco.bsky.social @eui-law.bsky.social
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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Between cooperative and adversarial EU politics An article by our own Luciano Bardi and Jacopo Cellini analyses interparty relations in the European Parliament from 1952 to 2024, with a particular focus on the European People’s Party Read it 🔓 #OpenAccess 👉 loom.ly/ZbQOpCA 📚 #FridayReads
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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
On a small prison island in 1941, a vision for Europe was born…
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Historical Archives of the European Union @eui-euarchives.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
📜 Did you know? For 5 years, the HAEU education programme has returned to Ventotene, connecting one of the few surviving copies of the Ventotene Manifesto with the people of the island where it was written. This year, children, residents and the Mayor took part. Read more: loom.ly/wkpCmWQ
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Historical Archives of the European Union @eui-euarchives.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
📂 News from the Deposits! Now available for consultation at the HAEU: the archives of Jacques Delors’ Cabinet from the Delors II Commission (1989–1993). These newly accessible files shed light on pivotal events in European integration history. More here: loom.ly/_LMJhXA #EUHistory
Jacques Delors, President of the CEC, by Christian Lambiotte. ©European Communities , 1991
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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
🧑‍🤝‍🧑🇪🇺 Free movement means social security rights across EU 55 years ago in 1971, EEC Regulation 1408/ ensured workers moving across Europe didn’t lose their social security rights. Explore the @eui-euarchives.bsky.social to learn more about the European social citizenship loom.ly/tEfF69s
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Tim Heinkelmann-Wild @heinkelmann-wild.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Elettra Bargellini (@eui-law.bsky.social bsky.social), @flaviacanestrini.bsky.social (@eui-history.bsky.social), and I (@eui-sps.bsky.social) organised this event to discuss historical precedents to today’s challenges to the rules-based #order and the implications for #Europe’s future:
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Revisiting the Rules-Based Order’s Crisis: Contemporary Challenges, Historical Precedent and Lessons for EU’s Future
MWP - Multidisciplinary Research Workshop
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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
🇪🇺🤝United States of… Europe? Already in 1953, young European federalists gathered in Rome calling for shared citizenship, government, and parliament. Explore the Mouvement Fédéraliste Européen and a debate that lies at the heart of European integration 👉 @eui-euarchives.bsky.social loom.ly/Q3263EU
Poster of the Gioventù Federalista Europea. HAEU, MFE-82
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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Europe’s memory lives in voices, too Did you know that @eui-euarchives.bsky.social sky.social holds more than 900 oral history interviews from EU politicians and officials? 🎧 Explore the original recordings and written transcripts from the people who shaped European integration 👉 loom.ly/B_Mbulg
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