Abstract
In September 1977 the EEC Commission met at La Roche in the Ardennes to consider two major dimensions of Community policy: economic and monetary union, and enlargement to include Greece, Spain and Portugal. Sceptics might well deem the two objectives incompatible. Economic and monetary union, scheduled originally for 1980, had been indefinitely postponed because of the clear disunion of exchange rates during the 1970s. In itself this reflected the difference between strong and weak currencies, with major disparities emerging between the French franc, British sterling and the West German Mark. But it also threw the Common Agricultural Policy into disarray, i.e., the very policy which would be most strained by enlargement of the Community to include the new applicants.
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Notes
See, further, Jacques Grall, ‘Le débat au l’élargissement de la CEE’, Le Monde, 12 Sept. 1978.
Michael Hornsby, ‘Mr. Jenkins says enlargement of the EEC will be expensive’, The Times, 19 Oct. 1977.
See, further, Christian Heimpal, ‘The Cooperation of the European Community with Southern Europe’, in Fundacao Gulbenkian, Conferencia Internacional sobre Economia Portugesa (Lisbon: 1977 ).
Stuart Holland, ‘Dependent Development: Portugal as Periphery’, in Dudley Seers (ed.), Underdeveloped Europe (1979).
PCE, Manifesto Programa del Partido Comunista de Espana (Coleccidn Ebro, 1975) pp. 118–21.
A point stressed by Charles Kindleberger in Europe’s Postwar Growth: the Role of Labour Supply (Oxford University Press, 1967).
See, further, Russell King, ‘Long-Range Migration Patterns in the EEC: An Italian Case Study’, in Roger Lee and Philip Ogden (eds) Economy and Society in the EEC, ch. 6 (Saxon House, 1976).
Karl Georg Zinn, ‘The Social Market in Crisis’, in Stuart Holland (ed.), Beyond Capitalist Planning (Blackwell, 1978 ).
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Holland, S. (1980). Applicants or Supplicants?. In: Uncommon Market. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16304-5_10
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