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Speech given by Gaston Thorn (14 February 1984)
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Speech given by Gaston Thorn (14 February 1984), in Bulletin of the European Communities. February 1984, No 2, pp. 26-28.
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Treaty on European Union
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© European Communities
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On 14 February 1984, Gaston Thorn, President of the Commission reaffirms the institution's support for the setting up of a future European Union.
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HISTORICAL EVENTS >> 1980–1986 Enlargement to the south and the Single European Act >> Plans for a European Union >> The European Parliament's proposals
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Speech given by Gaston Thorn (14 February 1984)
[...] Admittedly, Mr. President, support for your political venture, identification with your ideals, does not mean that we can give our unqualified approval to each and every one of the provisions in your draft Treaty. My colleague, Mr. Andriessen, and I did not fail last September in this very place to tell you, with the candour we owe the House, on which points the Commission's view differed from yours. And, for my own part, I share some of the regrets expressed today, particularly by Mr. Pfennig. The work which produced today's draft Treaty from September's resolution took account of some of the Commission's observations, and there we can only applaud. However, some of the reservations made by the Commission in September still stand. This is particularly true—let me quote this one example only —with regard to the provisions which, albeit for a limited period, allow Member States to block a decision by pleading a vital interest. I am not going to reiterate all the considerations that I put to the House at length in September. But I must say again loud and clear that that any move on your part, even with built-in limitations and qualifications, to sanction the possibility of pleading vital interest to block decisions is to my mind an unwarranted concession to a pernicious (...) Read more in ENA |
| See also |
Draft Treaty establishing the European Union (14 February 1984)
Protocol (No 6) on the Statute of the Court of Justice (Nice, 26 February 2001) — consolidated version 2007
Seat of the Limburg Provincial Government (Maastricht)
The first stage of Economic and Monetary Union
'Twelve Stingy Ladies' from Crocodile (February 1992)
Article from the Treaty on European Union relating to the convergence criteria (7 February 1992)
Protocol (No 6) on the Statute of the Court of Justice (Nice, 26 February 2001) — consolidated version 2004
The signing of the Treaty on European Union
Treaty on European Union (Maastricht, 7 February 1992)
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