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Historical Documents (5)

  1973-1984

 European Council holds its first ever meeting in Dublin (March 1975). Major decisions are taken enabling the UK Government to recommend continued membership of the Community.
NOTE From here to end 1984 the Council reports are only available in French. Thereafter they are (at the very least) available in French, English and German.

 RADIO BBC report of the governing Labour party’s decision to allow free campaigning in the referendum on continuing EC membership.(April 1975)

Many interesting snippets from the party Conference debate.
Britain’s New Deal in Europe  (1975) government pamphlet advising voters to vote for staying in EEC

RADIO Audio extract of BBC report on the “Yes” (67%)  vote in the UK referendum on EEC membership (June 1975)

RADIO Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher speaking in favour of EC membership after the referendum

RADIO BBC counterfactual (April 2002) on what woiuld have happened if the referendum had voted “no”.

 European Council, Brussels (July 1975) asks the Foreign Affairs Council for a report on the elections of the European Parliament by universal suffrage. The report is to be issued by the end of the year

 Summit is held in Rambouillet, France    (November 1975). Germany, France, Italy, the United Kingdom, the United States and Japan stress the urgent need for economic recovery in the industrialised countries and express their willingness to intensify international cooperation

PHOTOS 

RADIO Audio extract Helmut Schmidt on the eve of the Rambouillet summit (November 1975)  Go to Item 7. A longer extract here 

 European Council, Rome (December 1975) decides on the direct election of the European Parliament, on passport union and on a single Community representation for the North-South Dialogue.

European Council, Luxembourg (April 1976) holds an initial exchange of views on the Tindemans report on the European Union of January 7

 European Council, Brussels (July 1976) agrees on the number and distribution of seats in the Parliament that is to be elected by universal suffrage in 1979 and appoints Roy Jenkins, President of the Commission

 Act on General Elections to the European Parliament  (September 1976) All languages

 European Council, The Hague (November 1976) examines the economic situation and reaffirms commitment to the North-South Dialogue. Issues a statement on the construction of the European Union.

 European Council, Copenhagen (April 1978) agrees on several issues relating to direct elections to the European Parliament.

 European Council, Bremen (July 1978) agrees a common strategy to achieve higher economic growth in order to reduce unemployment. Propose creating a European Monetary System (EMS) for exchange rate stability.

 European Council, Brussels (December 1978) establishes the European Monetary System based on a European currency unit (the ECU) and creates a committee of leading personalities to consider adjustments to institutional mechanisms and procedures in the context of enlargement

RADIO Audio extract Helmut Schmit on the creation of the EMS. Go to Item 14.

 European Council, Paris (March 1979) settles March 13 as the date on which the European Monetary System (EMS) is to enter into force. It also discusses the economic and social situation, the common agricultural policy and energy

 Margaret Thatcher becomes UK Prime-Minister (May 1979)

TELEVISION BBC Report 

 TELEVISION French Report of the First direct elections for the European parliament (June 1979)

 European Council, Strasbourg (June 1979) agrees to work out a joint energy strategy and examines the problems linked to convergence of economic performances. 

 Lomé II (October 1979) signed between EEC and 58 ACP countries

 European Council, Dublin (November 1979) discusses the convergence of economic performances and budgetary questions, the arrangements for examining Committee of Wise Men's report on adjustments to institutional mechanisms and procedures and the proposals for regulation of agricultural markets. 

 European Council, Luxembourg (April 1980) discusses the problems linked with convergence and British contribution to the Community budget.

 Greece signs Act of Accession (May 1980)

 European Council, Venice (June 1980) Issues declarations on the Middle East, the Euro-Arab dialogue, Lebanon and Afghanistan

 European Council, Luxembourg (December 1980) grants aids to be granted to Italy for reconstruction after the earthquake, and makes statements on East-West relations, on the Middle East and on the aids to be granted to Poland.

 Greece joins EEC (January 1981)

Constantine Karamanlis celebrates Greek Entry

 European Council, Maastricht (March 1981) discusses economic and social perspectives

 European Council, Luxembourg (June 1981) discusses economic and social perspectives and relations between the Community, the USA and Japan

 European Council is held in London (November 1981) discusses communications made by the Commission

European Council, Brussels (March 1982)

 Compromise on CAP prices and UK budgetary contribution (May 1982)

 European Council Brussels (June 1982)

 European Council, Copenhagen (December 1982) establishes priority objectives in the economic and social fields and confirms political engagement in favour of the enlargement.

 European Council, Brussels (March 1983) confirms the priority objectives set out at the Copenhagen European Council

 European Council, tuttgart (June 1983) Heads of State or Government and Foreign Ministers sign a Solemn Declaration on the European Union

The Solemn Declaration on European Union

 Altiero Spinelli lecture at the European University Institute (June 1983)

 Altiero Spinelli presents to the European Parliament a draft treaty establishing the European Union (September 1983)

 European Council, Athens (December 1983) Discusses ways to finance the Commission, the budgetary unbalances, the adaptation of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the strengthening of the Structural Funds and the development of new Community policies.  Fails to solve the problem of the UK budgetary contribution

 Draft Treaty on the establishment of the European Union (Spinelli draft) is passed by the European Parliament by a large majority (February 1984)

 European Council, Brussels (March 1984) Agreements are reached in a number of areas, however, the vast majority can not be finalised given the disagreements on the calculation and the amount of compensation to be granted to the United Kingdom to reduce its contribution to the Community budget

TELEVISION BBC report

 Multilateral EEC-EFTA ministerial meeting, Luxembourg (April 1984)

 Second direct elections to the European parliament (June 1984)

 European Council, Fontainebleau (June 1984) reaches an agreement on the amount of compensation to be granted to the United Kingdom to reduce its contribution to the Community budget. It brings to an end an eleven year episode that had poisoned UK-EEC relations. 

Reactivation of WEU (October 1984). Ministerial communiqué can be downloaded here. For other docs see WEU under collections

 European Council, Dublin (December 1984) decides to reinforce the European Monetary System (EMS) and to enhance the role of the ECU.  

Third ACP-EEC Convention (December 1984) is signed in Lomé  by the 10 Member States of the Community and their 65 partners of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) States.

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Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
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Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
- Jim Rohn

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

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A Real job is a job you hate.

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My son is now an “entrepreneur.” That’s what you are called when you don’t have a job.
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If you have a job without any aggravations, you don’t have a job.
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- Adolf Hitler

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- Ronald Reagan

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- John F. Kennedy

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- Richard Nixon

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- Adolf Hitler

I detest war; it ruins conversation
- Bernard Fontenelle

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
- George Bernard Shaw

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- Mahtma Gandhi

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- Robert Orben

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
- George Orwell

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- George Orwell

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- George Orwell

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
- George Orwell

To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.
- George Orwell

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
- Napoleon

The believer is happy, the doubter wise.
- Greek Proverb

Those who fail to fail to learn history, are doomed to repeat it.
- Wilston Churchill

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- Tony Blair

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.
- Lord Kelvin

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- President Reagan to his wife, Nancy after being shot

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
- George Orwell

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain

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- John F Kennedy

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- Thomas Jefferson to N. G. DufiefÂ

Truth between candid minds can never do harm.
- Thomas Jefferson

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- George Orwell

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- Mahatama Gandhi

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
- Alexander Hamilton

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- Winston Churchill

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
- Abraham Lincoln

You are remembered for the rules you break.
- Douglas MacArthur

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.
- Napoleon

Reading is the basics for all learning.
- George W. Bush

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
- Nelson Mandela

I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don’t always agree with them.
- George Bush

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been.
- President Gerald Ford

I’m not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.
- Hillary Clinton

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- G.B. Shaw

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- Bill Clinton

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
- Sir Winston Churchill

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
- Abraham Lincoln

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- Martin L. Gross

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- Arthur C. Clarke

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
- Charles de Gaulle

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
- George Jean Nathan

A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation.
- James Freeman Clarke,

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
- Isaac Newton

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
- Mao Tse Tung

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
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A politician will stand for what he thinks people will fall for.
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No government can be long secure without formidable opposition.
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