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'The new EEC and Spain' from El País
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Press article
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Leal, José Luis, "La nueva CEE y España", in El País. 17.12.1985: pp.11-12. Translated by the CVCE.
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Luxembourg European Council, Spain
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On 17 December 1985, the Spanish daily newspaper El País outlines Spain's position following the disappointing outcome of the European Summit held two weeks previously in Luxembourg.
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| Location in the digital library |
HISTORICAL EVENTS >> 1980–1986 Enlargement to the south and the Single European Act >> The Single European Act (SEA) >> Preparations for the Single European Act
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Tribune: José Luis Leal The new EEC and Spain
As was to be expected, the results of the Luxembourg summit were modest; it did not mark the decisive step forward for which some people had been hoping. At the previous summit in Milan, the aim had been to give fresh impetus to European Union by thoroughly exploring the possibilities for creating a genuine common market in Europe, abolishing individual states’ right of veto in Community bodies and giving more power to the European Parliament. All that ought to be taken for granted years after the Treaty of Rome, which already assigned priority to creation of the common market (now renamed ‘European space’ in a semantic slight of hand) and provided for majority voting rather than unanimous decision. So what has happened in the intervening years to make it necessary to rewrite the Treaty of Rome today? Some progress has been made in European construction, but so slowly that, contrary to the theories of the mathematicians, the European Achilles has not caught up with the tortoise. There is sufficient reason to think the renewal of the European idea we saw in Milan reflects awareness of a new European reality. Only a few years ago it seemed possible for Europe to catch up with the American standard of living. We were convinced that, except in a few limited fields, European technology was at least equal to that of t (...) Read more in ENA |
| See also |
Conclusions of the Luxembourg European Council (28 and 29 June 1991)
Resolution 575 (1974) of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (25 September 1974)
Letter from Margaret Thatcher to Gaston Thorn (London, 5 August 1982)
Luxembourg European Council (2 and 3 December 1985)
Signing of the Single European Act (Luxembourg, 17 February 1986)
Margaret Thatcher, The Downing Street Years
Conclusions of the Luxembourg European Council: excerpt on the Intergovernmental Conferences (28 and 29 June 1991)
Cartoon by Plantu on the conversion of Franco supporters to European democracy
European Parliament resolution on problems involved in the accession of Spain and Portugal with regard to fisheries (14 March 1985)
Francisco Fernández Ordóñez signs the Agreement on the European Economic Area (Oporto, 2 May 1992)
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