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For the first time, this book reveals the actual roles of the Christian Democratic (CD) parties in postwar Europe from a pan-European perspective.

It shows how Christian Democratic parties became the dominant political force in postwar Western Europe, and how the European People's Party is currently the largest group in the European Parliament. CD parties and political leaders like Adenauer, Schuman and De Gasperi played a particularly important role in the evolution of the 'core Europe' of the EEC/EC after 1945.

Key chapters address the same questions about the parties'...

Christdemokratische und konservative Parteien spielten in der zweiten Halfte des 20. Jahrhunderts eine immer wichtigere integrationspolitische Rolle. Es gab neue Anreize und Herausforderungen fur transnationale Kontakte und organisierte Parteienkooperation. Nach dem "Genfer Kreis" und den "Nouvelles Equipes Internationales" (NEI) konstituierte sich die "Europaische Union Christlicher Demokraten" (EUCD) 1965. Es folgten die Europaische Volkspartei (EVP) 1976 und die European Democrat Union (EDU) 1978. Diese Parteienzusammenschlusse fuhrten zur Abstimmung in politischen und ideologischen...

For the first time, this book reveals the actual roles of the Christian Democratic (CD) parties in postwar Europe from a pan-European perspective.

It shows how Christian Democratic parties became the dominant political force in postwar Western Europe, and how the European People's Party is currently the largest group in the European Parliament. CD parties and political leaders like Adenauer, Schuman and De Gasperi played a particularly important role in the evolution of the 'core Europe' of the EEC/EC after 1945.

Key chapters address the same questions about the parties'...

Austria joined the European Union in 1995, with the overwhelming support of its citizenry. In June 1994, a record 66.6 percent of the Austrian population voted in favor of joining the Union, and Austria acceded on January 1, 1995. Only three years later, in the second half of 1998, Austria assumed its first presidency of the European Union. Its competent conduct of the Union's business enhanced its reputation. The sense that Austria was a role model collapsed overnight, after a new conservative People's Party (iVP/FPi) coalition government was formed in Austria in early February 2000....