TY  - BOOK
AU  - Claudia Leskien
PY  - 2016
CY  - Bruxelles, Belgium
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783035265958
TI  - Operation Welcome
T2  - How Strasbourg Remained a Seat of European Institutions, 1949–1979
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-0352-6595-8
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1053962
N2  - An accepted narrative within European integration history is that the issue in which city to locate European Community headquarters was decided on the intergovernmental level between the member states. In the present volume, this view is expanded with the example of Strasbourg by arguing that activity at the local level is an important factor as well.  A set of highly active political and associational local agents used different strategies to consolidate the city’s position against competing cities and the European Communities. This study finds that a highly specialised group of municipal politicians and civil servants were an important factor for bringing the European institutions to the city.
KW  - Local activity in European integration history, the relationship between European institutions and their hosts, development in cities in response to international political institutions
LA  - English
ER  -