Transnational Socialism and European Integration: The Socialist Group in the Early European Parliament

This history of the Socialist Group in the early European Parliament covers its role in six policy areas that formed the core of postwar European integration: foreign policy, democracy and institutions, social policy, agriculture, migration and free movement, and cartel and competition policy.

Brian Shaev is Assistant Professor in History and European Union Studies at Leiden University. He has published widely on the history of social democracy and European integration, including on the Schuman Plan, the Algerian War, migration, international trade, welfare policy, transnationalism, and competition policy.