number 1 - Centre d'études et de recherches européennes Robert ...

More documents

Recommendations

Info

ÖSTERREICHISCHE OSTHEFTE Herausgegeben vom Österreichischen Ost- und Südosteuropa-Institut Chefredakteur: Walter Lukan Redaktionsassistentin: Petra Moissi Fachredakteure: Stephan Barisitz, Peter Jordan ISSN 0029-9375 Erscheinungsweise: viermal jährlich. Gesamtumfang pro Jahrgang ca. 700 Seiten. Abonnement ab Jg. 37 öS 828, -/DM 118, -. Einzelheftpreis öS 266, -/DM 38, -. Erscheint ab Jg. 35/1993 im Böhlau Verlag. Ältere Jahrgänge erhältlich. In Vorbereitung: 37. Jg. (1995), 1: Kroatien 37. Jg., 2: Sonderheft • BÖHLAU VERLAG WIEN KÖLN WEIMAR •
Dieses Dokument wurde erstellt mit FrameMaker 4.0.4. The Bomb and Europe 65 The Bomb and Europe Britain, France, and the EEC Entry Negotiations 1961-1963 Wolfram Kaiser "De Gaulle is trying to dominate Europe", a downcast Macmillan wrote in his diary at the end of January 1963. "It is the end – or at least a temporary bar – to everything for which I have worked for many years (...). All our policies at home and abroad are in ruins." 1 A fortnight earlier the British Prime Minister's residual hopes for a European settlement had been dashed when de Gaulle finally rejected Britain's application to join the European Economic Community (EEC), issuing his harshly worded veto during the weekly press conference at the Elysée. Answering a question from a journalist, the French President suggested that Britain was not yet fit to join the Community because her political interests, economic needs and cultural traditions were still incompatible with those of the core continental European countries. "It is predictable", the French President concluded with a view to an enlarged Community, "that the cohesion of all its members (...) would not last for very long and that, in fact, it would seem like a colossal Atlantic community under American dependence and direction, and that is not at all what France wanted to do and is doing, which is a strictly European construction." 2 De Gaulle's veto abruptly ended the protracted entry negotiations in Brussels which followed the British decision of July 1961 to apply for membership, but which only began in earnest in Spring 1962 after the Six had agreed on the future shape of a large section of their Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). These negotiations were only very superficially concerned primarily with transitional periods for British horticulture or special arrangements for New Zealand butter. Although very substantial economic interests were at stake, particularly in respect of the future of British agriculture and of the European Economic Community’s trading relationships with the countries of the Commonwealth, the British government's internal deliberations both before and during the negotiations show that it was prepared to pay a high economic price for securing the expected political benefits of being in the "inner circles of the Six". 3 At the same time, it was always likely that for de Gaulle the economic benefits which the French could negotiate in Brussels would not suffice. In order to bring the General around to accepting British membership of an enlarged Community, which could be expected to be substantially less French in character, political incentives were needed. From the very beginning 1. H. MACMILLAN, Diaries (28 January 1963), quoted in A. HORNE, Macmillan 1957-1986. Vol. II of the Official Biography, London 1989, p. 427. 2. Quoted in J. LACOUTURE, De Gaulle. The Ruler 1945-1970, London 1992, p. 358. 3. PRO CAB 129/102,I/107 (6 July 1960). For the reasoning behind the decision to apply for EEC membership see W. KAISER, "To join, or not to join: the «Appeasement» policy of Britain's first EEC application", in: B. BRIVATI and H. JONES (eds.), From Reconstruction to Integration. Britain and Europe since 1945, Leicester 1993, pp. 144-156.
Page 1 and 2:
JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION HIS
Page 3 and 4:
Dieses Dokument wurde erstellt mit
Page 5 and 6:
Introductory note - Introduction -
Page 7 and 8:
Introductory note - Introduction -
Page 9 and 10:
Page 11 and 12:
Allegiance - The Past and the Futur
Page 13 and 14:
Allegiance - The Past and the Futur
Page 15 and 16: Allegiance - The Past and the Futur
Page 23 and 24: Dieses Dokument wurde erstellt mit
Page 25 and 26: American Monnetism and the European
Page 41 and 42: The Western European Union Armament
Page 65: The Western European Union Armament
Page 69 and 70: The Bomb and Europe 67 I Only after
Page 71 and 72: The Bomb and Europe 69 as incompati
Page 73 and 74: The Bomb and Europe 71 had no idea
Page 75 and 76: The Bomb and Europe 73 in December
Page 77 and 78: The Bomb and Europe 75 Anglo-French
Page 79 and 80: The Bomb and Europe 77 On the other
Page 81 and 82: The Bomb and Europe 79 application
Page 83 and 84: The Bomb and Europe 81 French leade
Page 85 and 86: The Bomb and Europe 83 develop into
Page 87 and 88: The Bomb and Europe 85 ideological
Page 91 and 92: Les hauts fonctionnaires français
Page 115 and 116: The Court of Justice and its Role a
Page 117 and 118:
The Court of Justice and its Role a
Page 119 and 120:
Page 121 and 122:
Page 123 and 124:
Page 125 and 126:
Page 127 and 128:
Page 129 and 130:
Page 131 and 132:
Page 133 and 134:
La Haute Autorité de la Communaut
Page 135 and 136:
Page 137 and 138:
Page 139 and 140:
Page 141 and 142:
Page 143 and 144:
Page 145 and 146:
Page 147 and 148:
Book reviews - Comptes rendus - Buc
Page 149 and 150:
Book reviews - Comptes rendus - Buc
Page 151 and 152:
Page 153 and 154:
Notices - Informations - Mitteilung
Page 155 and 156:
Notices - Informations - Mitteilung
Page 157 and 158:
Abstracts - Résumés - Zusammenfas
Page 159 and 160:
Abstracts - Résumés - Zusammenfas
Page 161 and 162:
Page 163 and 164:
Annual subscription: 75- DM /1500fb
show all

number 1 - Centre d'études et de recherches européennes Robert ...

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?