Category: Miscellaneous readings

European Union History   This collection is still being annotated and upgraded.  The following programs may be useful to use the files on our site: Adobe Acrobat ReaderRealplayerTable of contents: Collections European Navigator...

  1945-1958 Protocol of the Yalta Conference  (March 1945) PHOTO Conference here and here.  US News report    US President Roosevelt  on his return from the Conference  Text Churchill to Truman (May 1945) outlining his worries...

1930-1944   Briand Plan  (May 1930) Often praised as a first step to European integration, but curiously muted when you look at the text (Extract)     Atlantic Conference (August 1941) A selection of full-text documents put...

1959-1973 TELEVISION BBC Report On De Gaulle becoming President of the V Republic   (January 1959)  TELEVISION French TV Report on the Opening of frontiers with the coming into force of the EEC (January 1959) Statement given by...

  1973-1984  European Council holds its first ever meeting in Dublin (March 1975). Major decisions are taken enabling the UK Government to recommend continued membership of the Community. NOTE From here to end 1984 the Council...

  1985-1992 Greenland’s referendum votes for withdrawal from the EEC (February 1985)  Portugal and Spain sign the Treaty of Accession (March 1985)  European Council, Brussels (March 1985) accepts the adhesion of Spain and...

  1993-2004   Single European Act enters force (January 1993)  Danish 56.8% “yes” vote on the Maastricht Treaty (May 1993) TELEVISION BBC Report of the UK Prime-minister John Major defending the Maastricht Treaty in Parliament...