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Neoliberal thinkers and European integration in the 1980s and the 1990s
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Contemporary European history, 2022, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 31-47
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VENTRESCA, Roberto, Neoliberal thinkers and European integration in the 1980s and the 1990s, Contemporary European history, 2022, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 31-47 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/75350
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This article explores how a specific strand of neoliberal-oriented intellectuals, namely those who revolved around the Mont Pèlerin Society (MPS), conceptualised the EEC policies between the 1980s and the early 1990s. In particular, this contribution considers two MPS general meetings, respectively held in 1982 and 1990, which were dedicated to the issue of European integration. Drawing on both primary and secondary sources, this article first assesses how neoliberal thinkers commented on and interpreted the EEC transformations during the 1980s. Second, it challenges the assumption according to which the run-up to the establishment of the EU was the outcome of a consolidated project of neoliberalisation of the EEC and EU institutions. Finally, this article shows in which terms these neoliberal thinkers conceived of the depoliticisation of European institutions after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the looming end of the Cold War.
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Published online: 19 July 2021