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The Political Parties in the European Parliament: the first ten years, September 1952-September 1962
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It is this study which appears to-day in book form through the instru_ mentality of A. W. Sijthoff, the well-known Dutch publishing house. It forms a noteworthy addition to the series entitled Ewropean Aspects, which has become familiar to all who specialise in and are concerned with the practical aspects of European unification. For this purpose, the author has had his work translated from Dutch into English, which, together with French, has been adopted as the vehicular language of the series.
Some two years have elapsed between the maintaining of the thesis (9 March 1963) and its publication. Yet this has in no way affected its subject-matter. As the title indicates, the intention is to cover only what Mr. Van Oudenhove calls the first ten years of existence of European parliamentarianism. The survey starts in September 1952, when tthe Common Assembly of the ECSC came into being, and ends in the same month of 1962.
The European Parliament held its first session in March 1958. Noe only in the chronological sense was it the successor to the Common Assembly of the ECSC. From its inception, it assimilated over a period of nearly six years, with a tenacity which is now common knowledge, the parliamentary traditions which its precursor had developed,
Mr. Van Oudenhove rightly decided that this continuity should form the basis of his present work. The book is accordingly in two parts, the first being devoted to the Common Assembly of the ECSC and the second to the European Parliament.
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