Enlarging the European Union: The Commission Seeking Influence, 1961–1973

269 Pages·2013·1.602 MB·English

by  Michael J. Geary (auth.)

Enlarging the European Union
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Enlarging the European
Union
The Commission Seeking Influence,
1961–1973
Michael J. Geary
AssistantProfessor,MaastrichtUniversity,TheNetherlands
GlobalEuropeFellow,WoodrowWilsonInternationalCenterforScholars,Washington,DC
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Contents
Acknowledgements viii
ListofAbbreviations x
Introduction 1
1 TheCommissionandBritain’sFirstApplication 15
2 TheCommissionandtheIrishApplication 43
3 FromVetotoVeto:BritainandtheCommission 62
4 IrelandandthePolicyofFailure 87
5 NavigatingtheGaullistVeto 105
6 LaBatailledesChiffres 133
7 ChallengingtheAcquis 159
Conclusions 181
Notes 187
Bibliography 231
Index 245
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Acknowledgements
AttheEuropeanUniversityInstituteinFlorence,Ienjoyedauniqueworking
environmenttoresearchandwriteaPhDonEuropeanUnionenlargement.
IwouldliketothankthestaffattheEUIfortheiradministrativehelp,and
theGovernmentofIreland/EUIforfundingthedoctoralscholarship.Profes-
sors N. Piers Ludlow and Pascaline Winandprovided excellent supervision.
Theybothdeservewarmthanksfortheirconstantsupportandprofessional
guidance. Professors Kiran Klaus Patel and Jan van der Harst offered advice
andconstructivecomments,andsharedtheirwealthofknowledge,andfor
this I am very grateful. Kiran, in particular, has been a constant source of
encouragementsinceIleftFlorence–athousandthanks.
Dr Denise Dunne, NUI Maynooth, merits a special mention for first sug-
gesting that I explore the historical role of the European Commission, and
forbeingahighlysupportivementoroverthelastnumberofyears.Madame
Collonval and her colleagues at the European Commission Archives in
Brussels were always very helpful and efficient during my many research
trips. I also wish to thank staff at various archives around Europe, and in
the United States. Palgrave Macmillan and my editors, Clare Mence and
Holly Tyler, were predictably efficient throughout the publication process.
Ananonymousreviewerprovidedmewithsomeveryusefulsuggestions.
A Fulbright-Schuman Fellowship to Washington, DC, and a European
Parliament-BronisławGeremekResearchFellowshiptotheCollegeofEurope
(Warsaw) allowed me time to work on the manuscript. In DC, I would like
to offer particular thanks to Professors Michael Kimmage and Jerry Muller
at the Catholic University of America, who welcomed me into the History
Department.BillErb,ProfessorStefaniaLucamante,andtheirsons,Stefano
andLamberto,gavemeaverywarmandgenerousItalianintroductiontolife
inWashington.ProfessorBarbaraCurli,KevinA.Lees,andtheincrediblytal-
entedSeptimeWebreensuredthatmyFulbrightexperiencewaseverything
Icouldhavehopedfor.InWarsaw,wordsofappreciationwarmlygotoPiotr
Kozikowski,AnnaFlanagan,AmbassadorEugeneHutchinson,andDrIryna
Vushko. I would also like to express my deep gratitude to the pre-eminent
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in DC, where I worked
onthefinalcorrections.
At various stages of this project, family and friends provided encourage-
ment,andlightrelieffromthesolitaryprocessofarchivalresearch,writing,
and revising. Let me thank William Casey, Professor Vincent Comerford,
Laura Danielìu¯te˙, Thomas J. Doyle, Mary Fitzpatrick and Seán Cody, Mary
Geary, Dr Carine Germond, Professor Margaret Kelleher, Dr Georgina and
Elizabeth Laragy, Tony McCarthy, Dr Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol, Dr Patryk
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Acknowledgements ix
Pawlak, Malcolm Quigley, Stelios Makriyiannis, Kieran Moylan, Jeroen van
Liempd, Thierry Rancé-Francius, and the inspiring Dr Bernadette Trehy.
IalsowishtothankAnthony,Brian,Bridget,David,Mairéad,andNora,and
myparents,RitaandJohnGeary,whoremainmybiggestsupporters.
IdedicatethebooktoCarmelMoylanandPaddyGeary,fortheirloveand
support.
Washington,DC,April2013