Abstract

This paper examines the British attitudes toward the issues of the European Community movement to the next stage of integration. The author focuses on the lengthy report on European Union by the Belgian Prime Minister L. Tindemans. The author analyzes three main directions of movement toward political union. They are firstly, the issues of the common foreign policy which proved to be the main reasons for building Europe; secondly, the proposals on economic and monetary union which were the most critical in Britain; thirdly, the institutional developments which were not of a federalist nature and commented on by the British officials in a positive tone. The author argues that those points in the report which did not suit the UK interests, the British government intended to settle down during negotiations by their exception or granting of special conditions to the United Kingdom.

Highlights

  • The idea of movement to a new stage of European integration was intensively discussed during the first half of 1970s

  • The report laid the basis for further discussions on the issue of movement to the political union among the members of the European Community

  • The Rome Treaty establishing the EEC put the basis for movement towards the European political union

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The idea of movement to a new stage of European integration was intensively discussed during the first half of 1970s. All proposals were analyzed and summed up in a lengthy report by the Belgian Prime Minister L. The report laid the basis for further discussions on the issue of movement to the political union among the members of the European Community. The beginning of practical realization of the idea of political union in Europe could be traced back to the early 1970s. It took, many years for the basis of European idea be formulated and approved. L. Tindemans report became one of the stages on the way to European Union

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