7. The First Years of the European Economic Community (the 1960s and into the 1970s)

2020 ◽  
pp. 123-136
Author(s):  
Simon Bulmer ◽  
Owen Parker ◽  
Ian Bache ◽  
Stephen George ◽  
Charlotte Burns
Keyword(s):  
Security Policy ◽  
European Economic Community ◽  
Rapid Progress ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
European Economic ◽  
Foreign And Security Policy ◽  
The Hague ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Council Of Ministers ◽  
The Impact

This chapter focuses on the first years of the European Economic Community (EEC). It describes the early 1960s as a period of apparent success for the supranational elements within the EEC, noting the rapid progress made towards the creation of both a common market and a common agricultural policy. The chapter also examines the crisis sparked by France’s decision to boycott meetings of the Council of Ministers in response to proposals for a more supranational method of funding the EEC budget; the impact of this crisis on the process of European integration; the so-called Luxembourg Compromise; and the Hague Summit. It concludes by discussing the EEC’s expansion of its membership at the start of the 1970s, as well as its first moves towards an Economic and Monetary Union and a Common Foreign and Security Policy.

7. The First Years of the European Economic Community (the 1960s and into the 1970s)

2014 ◽  
pp. 119-132
Author(s):  
Ian Bache ◽  
Simon Bulmer ◽  
Stephen George ◽  
Owen Parker
Keyword(s):  
Security Policy ◽  
European Economic Community ◽  
Rapid Progress ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
European Economic ◽  
Foreign And Security Policy ◽  
The Hague ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Council Of Ministers ◽  
The Impact

This chapter focuses on the first years of the European Economic Community (EEC). It describes the early 1960s as a period of apparent success for the supranational elements within the EEC, noting the rapid progress made towards the creation of both a common market and a common agricultural policy. The chapter also examines the crisis sparked by France’s decision to boycott meetings of the Council of Ministers in response to proposals for a more supranational method of funding the EEC budget; the impact of this crisis on the process of European integration; the so-called Luxembourg Compromise; and the Hague Summit. It concludes by discussing the EEC’s expansion of its membership at the start of the 1970s, as well as its first moves towards an Economic and Monetary Union and a Common Foreign and Security Policy.

European Community

1966 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 847-857
Keyword(s):  
European Community ◽  
European Economic Community ◽  
Atomic Energy ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
European Economic ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Energy Community ◽  
Council Of Ministers

Council of Ministers: The European Economic Community (EEC) Council Of Ministers met on July 29–30, 1964, to discuss the fusion of the EEC, the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom), and the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC). It also discussed the question of Austria's future relations with the Community and instructed the permanent representatives to prepare draft directives to permit the opening of negotiations with Austria on the subject.

Some Preliminary Notes on Bureaucratic Relationships in the European Economic Community

1966 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 750-773 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence Scheinman
Keyword(s):  
European Community ◽  
European Economic Community ◽  
European Parliament ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
European Economic ◽  
General Report ◽  
Community Policy ◽  
Council Of Ministers

In his review of the Fifth General Report on the Activity of the European Community the Rapporteur for the European Parliament critically singled out certain aspects of the Commission's style in developing Community policy: the excessive importance it seemed to place on proposing only solutions which had the strongest chance of being adopted by the Council of Ministers instead of maximizing the potentiality of its power of initiative; and, as a corollary, the disturbing tendency toward increasing infusion and influence of national administrations in the policy orientations and decisions of the European Economic Community (EEC).

The European Neutrals and the Atlantic Community

1963 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 592-609
Author(s):  
Jacques Freymond
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
European Economic Community ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
European Economic ◽  
Community Or ◽  
Atlantic Community ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Retaliatory Action

When major plans for European or Atlantic integration are under discussion, European neutrals receive little attention. Much concern is expressed over the impact of the European Economic Community or of an Atlantic Community upon Latin America, Africa, or Asia, and considerable care is exercised to alleviate apprehension, to quiet fears, to subdue sharp reactions, and, finally, to prevent retaliatory action. But the situation of the small neutral European states is only mentioned in passing. In the last analysis, more consideration is shown for distant and often hostile neutralists than for neutral, but friendly, neighbors.

6. The ‘Other’ European Communities and the Origins of the European Economic Community (the Early 1950s to the 1960s)

2020 ◽  
pp. 107-122
Author(s):  
Simon Bulmer ◽  
Owen Parker ◽  
Ian Bache ◽  
Stephen George ◽  
Charlotte Burns
Keyword(s):  
European Economic Community ◽  
Political Community ◽  
The Other ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
European Economic ◽  
The Road ◽  
Foreign Policies ◽  
Ultimate Failure ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Energy Community

This chapter focuses on the ‘other’ European communities and the origins of the European Economic Community (EEC). Negotiations over a plan for a European Defence Community (EDC) ran parallel to those over the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC). Connected with the EDC was a proposal to create a European Political Community (EPC) to provide democratic European structures for co-ordinating foreign policies. This chapter first considers the Pleven Plan for an EDC, before discussing the development of the EDC/EPC plan and the ultimate failure to reach agreement in 1954. It also analyses the Messina negotiations and the road to the Treaties of Rome. Finally, it looks at the experience of the other organization that was created at the same time as the EEC, the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom), which, like the ECSC, was institutionally merged with the EEC in 1967.

Transaction Analysis: The Impact of Operationalization

1971 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 132-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry B. Hughes
Keyword(s):  
European Economic Community ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
European Economic ◽  
Transaction Analysis ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Endless Variety

The study of integration provides a seemingly endless variety of theories, frameworks, approaches, definitions, terminology, and methodologies. An unfortunate consequence of this profusion and confusion is that research findings exhibit the same variety. For instance, studies of integration within the European Economic Community (EEC) can easily be divided into two types: those that find integration progressing steadily and even rapidly and those that find it stagnant.

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