Financial and security perspectives in European integration history

• Historical Archives of the European Union
• Department of History
• The Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre

Alcide De Gasperi Center fellows Marion Tosolini and Ito Nobuyoshi will present their work: Tosolini will discuss financial sovereignty prior to the European Monetary Union, while Nobuyoshi examines how the EU addressed security challenges during southern enlargement.

This Alcide De Gasperi Centre research seminar looks at two separate dimensions of European integration history: financial sovereignty, and security policy with respect to the southern enlargement of the EEC.

Marion Tosolini, PhD researcher in Economics at the University of Lorraine, examines the European debt history before the Euro Area, focusing on the borrowing policy of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) from the 1950s to 1990s. Through historical archives and a political economy approach, she will explore how financial sovereignty was shaped by monetary dependence in the absence of a single European currency.

Ito Nobuyoshi, Senior Fellow at the Center for Military History of the National Institute for Defense Studies in Tokyo, explores the interaction between security policy and European integration, with a focus on the southern enlargement of the European Communities (EC) in the 1980s. His work revisits how the transition to democracy in Southern Europe was seen as a security challenge and how political and economic integration contributed to stabilizing Western Europe.

The seminar will be chaired by Jonah J Berger, PhD researcher in History at the EUI.

The Alcide De Gasperi Centre supports researchers working in areas related to the history of European integration and cooperation. It coordinates networks of historians, facilitates the use of primary sources and increases public interest in the history of European integration.