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Carine Germond, France, Germany and Britain’s Second Application to the European Community (1966_1969)
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Expert contribution
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Carine Germond, Université Robert Schuman-Strasbourg III-Yale University, Rochefort (2007).
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accession to the Community, common agricultural policy, EFTA, enlargement of the Community, Federal Republic of Germany, France, United Kingdom, veto, WEU
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RESEARCH AND TEACHING >> Expert contributions
RESEARCH AND TEACHING >> Expert contributions
HISTORICAL EVENTS >> 1957–1968 Successes and crises >> The United Kingdom and its applications for accession to the Common Market >> The United Kingdom's second application for accession to the Common Market >> The reaction of the Six to the United Kingdom's second application for accession
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France, Germany and Britain’s Second Application to the European Community (1966-1969)
by Carine GERMOND, researcher at the Université Robert Schuman-Strasbourg III/Yale University The failure of the United Kingdom’s first application to the European Communities (EC) had a lasting effect on Franco–German relations. The preamble to the Franco–German cooperation treaty — the Élysée treaty was signed a week after Charles de Gaulle’s fateful press conference of 14 January 1963 — bore the marks of Franco–German disagreements on this issue. The election in October 1964 of a Labour government for whom accession to the EC was not a priority, had eliminated, albeit only temporarily, a source of disputes between Paris and Bonn. From summer 1966 however, it became clear that Prime Minister Harold Wilson was considering a second bid to join the EC. Given the traditional French and German position on enlargement, a second British membership application, inevitably followed by that of other members of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), was a likely cause of additional tension for an already strained bilateral relationship. In the winter of 1966, the replacement of the Erhard–Schröder government by a grand coalition formed by Christian Democrats (CDU) and Social Democrats positively altered the dynamics of Franco–German relations (...) Read more in ENA |
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Negotiations with the United Kingdom
Convention on the presence of foreign forces in the FRG (Paris, 23 October 1954)
Cartoon by Trog on WEU and the question of British accession to the European Communities (19 February 1969)
Convention on relations between the Three Powers and the FRG (Bonn, 26 May 1952)
Address given by Edward Heath (Brussels, 29 January 1963)
Cartoon by Lang on the FRG and the United Kingdom's accession to the EC (7 April 1971)
General de Gaulle’s second veto
Cartoon by Lang on the United Kingdom's accession to the EC (28 October 1967)
Letter from James Prior to Henry Plumb (8 July 1971)
Cartoon by Eccles, published in the Daily Worker (28 January 1963)
'A chance to seize' from Tribune (19 May 1950)
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