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‘Sweden, Finland and Austria reach agreement with the Twelve on the terms for their accession to the European Union' from Le Monde (3 March 1994)
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Press article
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DE LA GUÉRIVIÈRE, Jean, La Suède, la Finlande et l'Autriche s'entendent avec les Douze sur les conditions de leur entrée dans l'Union européenne, in Le Monde. 03.03.1994, No 15.270; 50e année, p. 3. Translated by the CVCE.
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accession to the Community, Austria, Finland, Sweden
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On 3 March 1994, the French daily newspaper Le Monde outlines the agreement secured two days earlier in Brussels following the negotiations with Austria, Finland and Sweden on accession to the European Union.
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HISTORICAL EVENTS >> 1987–1997 The European Union in a Europe in the throes of change >> The fourth enlargement >> Negotiations for accession to the European Union
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The negotiations in Brussels on the enlargement of the Community Sweden, Finland and Austria reach agreement with the Twelve on the terms for their accession to the European Union
Brussels (European Union) From our correspondent Unless their electorates decide otherwise, Sweden, Finland and Austria will form part of the European Union in January 1995. Final negotiations on accession terms that had begun in Brussels on 25 February ended in compromise agreements on Tuesday 1 March. Norway was not party to those agreements, and separate negotiations with the Twelve will resume on 8 March. The bitterness of the debates and their technical and often complex nature caused many delegations to doubt the final favourable outcome, but there is no escaping this essential fact: Europe will be enriched by the accession of Sweden, a country deemed to be a model of social cohesion, Finland, whose freedom has for so long been overshadowed by Moscow, and Austria, still sidelined in the Old Continent where it used to play such an important role. Why did the discussions take so long? On the one hand, the twelve Member States were divided between their financial interests and the potential impact of a fourfold refusal to give in to the lure of the European idea on an electorate which had recently been asked enthusiastically (...) Read more in ENA |
| See also |
Cartoon by Hanel on the accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden to the European Union (1993)
Conclusions of the Edinburgh European Council: extract concerning the accession of new Member States to the European Union (11 and 12 December 1992)
Commission Opinion on the applications for accession to the European Union by Austria, Finland, Norway and Sweden (19 April 1994)
Conclusions of the Brussels European Council: extract concerning the place of the applicant countries in the institutions and bodies (10 and 11 December 1993)
Negotiations for accession to the European Union
The accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden to the European Union (1995)
Conclusions of the Brussels European Council: extract concerning enlargement (29 October 1993)
European Parliament resolution on enlargement and neutrality (24 March 1994)
The fourth enlargement
Conclusions of the Corfu European Council: extract concerning the signing of the Treaty of Accession (24–25 June 1993)
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