European Integration. Mark Gilbert

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СКАЧАТЬ British membership.

      July 1, 1968: Customs union begins, eighteen months ahead of the schedule anticipated in the EEC treaty.

      December 1–2, 1969: The Hague summit of EC leaders.

      1970s

      July 2, 1970: Franco Maria Malfatti (Italy) becomes third president of the EC Commission.

      October 7–8, 1970: Werner Report on monetary union adopted.

      October 27, 1970: Luxembourg Report on political cooperation adopted.

      August 15, 1971: United States ends dollar convertibility with gold.

      January 22, 1972: Britain, Denmark, Ireland, and Norway sign accession treaties. Norway rejects membership in a referendum on September 25.

      March 22, 1972: Sicco Mansholt (Netherlands) becomes fourth president of the EC Commission following Malfatti’s resignation.

      October 19–21, 1972: At Paris, EC Nine commit themselves to creating a European Union by 1980.

      January 1, 1973: Britain, Denmark, and Ireland join the EC.

      January 6, 1973: François-Xavier Ortoli (France) becomes fifth president of EC Commission.

      April 23, 1973: Kissinger announces the “Year of Europe.”

      December 9–10, 1974: Paris summit of EC leaders establishes European Council.

      January 7, 1976: Publication of Tindemans Report.

      September 20, 1976: Treaty authorizing direct elections to the European Assembly.

      January 6, 1977: Roy Jenkins (Great Britain) becomes sixth president of the EC Commission.

      October 27, 1977: Jenkins appeals for monetary union in a speech at the European University Institute.

      December 4–5, 1978: Brussels European Council decides to introduce the EMS.

March 13, 1979: EMS enters into operation.

      March 16, 1979: Death of Jean Monnet.

      June 7–10, 1979: First direct elections to the European Parliament.

      November 29–30, 1979: British budgetary question explodes at Dublin European Council.

      1980s

      January 1, 1981: Greece becomes tenth member state of the EC.

      January 6, 1981: Gaston Thorn (Luxembourg) becomes seventh president of the EC Commission.

      May 10, 1981: François Mitterrand becomes president of France.

      October 4, 1981: French franc devalued within the EMS. Further adjustments follow in February and June 1982 and March 1983.

      November 19, 1981: Italian foreign minister Emilio Colombo and his German counterpart, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, explain their proposals for a European Act to the European Parliament.

      June 17–19, 1983: Stuttgart European Council ends the Genscher–Colombo process by signing the “Solemn Declaration” on European Union.

      February 14, 1984: The European Parliament adopts a proposal for a treaty on European Union.

      June 14–17, 1984: Second elections to the European Parliament.

      June 25–26, 1984: Fontainebleau European Council. British budgetary problem resolved amid euphoria. Dooge Committee on institutional reform launched.

      January 7, 1985: Jacques Delors (France) becomes eighth president of the EC Commission.

      June 12, 1985: Portugal and Spain sign their accession treaties. They enter the Community on January 1, 1986.

      June 14, 1985 : The Commission submits its white paper, Completing the Internal Market.

      June 28–29, 1985: Milan European Council calls an intergovernmental conference to decide amendments to the EEC treaty.

      February 17 and 28, 1986: Single European Act (SEA) signed in Brussels.

      May 23, 1986: Death of Altiero Spinelli.

      May 29, 1986: The flag of the European Community (twelve gold stars arranged in a circle on a light blue background) is flown for the first time.

      February 18, 1987: “Delors Package” proposing big increases in regional development funding presented to European Parliament.

      July 1, 1987: SEA becomes law after all twelve member states complete ratification.

June 27–28, 1988: Hanover European Council renews Delors’s presidency of the Commission.

      September 20, 1988: Bruges speech: Margaret Thatcher warns of a European “super-state.”

      October 24, 1988: Court of First Instance instituted.

      April 12, 1989: Presentation of the Delors Report.

      June 15–18, 1989: Third elections to the European Parliament.

      November 10, 1989: Fall of the Berlin Wall.

      December 8–9, 1989: Strasbourg European Council launches IGC on monetary union and decides to set up the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to provide loans for the countries of Eastern Europe.

      1990s

      April 28, 1990: Dublin European Council welcomes German reunification. A second Dublin summit on June 25–26 decides to call a parallel IGC on political union and fixes the date that the two IGCs will begin.

      June 19, 1990: Schengen Treaty signed.

      October 3, 1990: Reunification of Germany.

      October 27–28, 1990: Rome I European Council reveals a deep breach between Britain and the rest of the EU.

      December 14–15, 1990: Rome II summit launches the two IGCs.

      April 14, 1991: The EBRD starts work.

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