The European Union and its Political Leaders: Understanding the Integration Process

Introduction. - GEORGE OF PODĚBRADY (The role of external stimulus to the European integration).- CHARLES-IR冇万 CASTEL, ABB?DE SAINT-PIERRE (The role of Religion in the European integration).- IMMANUEL KANT (The idea of progress and European integration).- GASPAR MELCHOR DE JOVELLANOS (And other Europeanists in favour of the socioeconomic well-being of the nations of Europe).- VICTOR HUGO (and other pro- "good governance" and "United States of Europe" Europeanists).- RICHARD N. COUDENHOVE-KALERGI.- ARISTIDE BRIAND (Cooperation as the motor of Europe).- JOS?ORTEGA Y GASSET.- MADARIAGA AND THE SEARCH FOR A FREE EUROPE.- DENIS DE ROUGEMONT: AN EUROPOS FEDERALIST.- JULI篾 MAR泝S AGUILERA.- JEAN MONNET (Neofunctionalism at work in the European Integration).- ALTIERO SPINELLI (Federalism in the European Integration).- ROBERT SCHUMAN (and the pro-European political generation of 1950).- WINSTON CHURCHILL (Cooperation and British support to the European Integration).- DE GAULLE (The role of the Member States in the European Union).- MARGARET THATCHER (British strategy in the European Integration).- HELMUT KOHL (The German reunification and the genesis of the European Union).- FRANIS MITTERRAND (French leadership in the European Union).- Andreas Papandreou: towards the European solidarity.- SIMONE VEIL. A EUROPEANIST COMMITTED TO THE DEFENCE OF HUMAN RIGHTS.- Emmanuel Macron: the return of France as a driving force for European integration?