Borders and Policies: the Effects of the First Enlargement of the EEC on Educational and Training Policies
Borders and Policies: the Effects of the First Enlargement of the EEC on Educational and Training Policies

Summary/Abstract: After the process of European integration started, around the beginning of the Sixties, one can begin to identify the first signs of the Community’s action in the field of vocational training and education. The community deepening in this area was influenced by several factors, the most important being the phenomenon of enlargements the first of which saw as protagonists the United Kingdom, Ireland and Denmark. Seeing as the first enlargement occurred in the same years as a Community intervention in the field in question was taking shape, it is interesting to analyze some of the episodes that took place in order to understand how opening the community to new countries, often having different ideas and values, inevitably influenced the initiatives taken by the Community’s various institutions. The episodes analysed in this essay are a testimony as to how national resistances, from the countries of the first enlargement, to the transfer of power in the field of education contributed to delay the birth of a “European education”. For this reason, Community action in this field ended up producing limited results and the steps towards a Community educational dimension were difficult.

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