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Walter Hallstein had successfully exercised his presidency of the European Commission since the founding of the European Economic Community. French President Charles de Gaulle demanded his removal from office, against the determined and common opposition of governments in The Hague, Brussels, Luxembourg and Rome. This opposition did not receive sufficient encouragement from Bonn.1 Hallstein refused a compromise which would have entailed him staying in office, albeit temporarily, since he believed this to be a breach of the Treaty.
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Walter Hallstein, Der unvollendete Bundesstaat: Europäische Erfahrungen und Erkenntnisse Düsseldorf,?). English edition, Walter Hallstein, Europe in the Making, trans. Charles Roetter (London, 1972).
Hallstein, Die Europäische Gemeinschaft (Düsseldorf, 1973). The ‘fifth, fully revised and expanded edition of 1979’ was actually the third edition, if Der unvollendete Bundesstaat of 1969 is included. Yet, as Hallstein mentions in his foreword, it is ‘the fifth version of the book and a fundamental revision’. A continuation (second version) of the original accordingly provided the basis for the French edition published in 1970, and this underwent further revisions for the English edition (third version) and for Die Europäische Gemeinschaft of 1973 (fourth version). According to a statement by Econ Verlag of 27 September 1993, around 7000 copies of Der unvollendete Bundesstaat and around 6000 copies of Die Europäische Gemeinschaft were printed and sold.
Hallstein, Europäische Reden, ed. Thomas Oppermann (Stuttgart, 1979).
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Jansen, T. (1998). Walter Hallstein After the Presidency. In: Loth, W., Wallace, W., Wessels, W. (eds) Walter Hallstein: The Forgotten European?. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26693-7_12
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