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Title

The Intergovernmental Conference on Political Union : institutional reforms, new policies, and international identity of the European Community / edited by Finn Laursen and Sophie Vanhoonacker.

Author

Intergovernmental Conference on Political Union (1990-1991 : Rome, Italy, and Maastricht, Netherlands)

Publication

Dordrecht, The Netherlands : M. Nijhoff Publishers ; Norwell, MA, U.S.A. : Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1992.

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Additional Authors

• Laursen, Finn
• Vanhoonacker, Sophie, 1962-

Description

xvi, 505 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

The radical changes taking place in the international scene during the late 1980s have presented the European Communities with important new challenges. The twelve member States agreed that the only way to respond effectively to this new situation was to speed up the European integration process, and in December 1990 two Intergovernmental Conferences were inaugurated, focusing respectively on the development of an Economic and Monetary Union and a Political Union. It was the difficult task of the Luxembourg and Dutch Presidencies to channel the often very diverging positions of the different actors in the process into the coherent set of amendments to the Treaties forming the European Communities. This publication examines the positions which the different Member States, the Commission and the European Parliament have been defending in the Intergovernmental Conference on Political Union and more particularly with regard to one of the most sensitive topics under discussion, namely the development of a Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). The introduction places the debate on the development of a Political Union and a CFSP in an historical perspective and gives an overview of the progression of the negotiations. The concluding chapter presents a general framework for better understanding of the course and results of the negotiations, and a critical evaluation of the outcome. The annexes reproduce the main proposals on the development of a CFSP submitted to the Conference.

Series Statement

Professional research paper

Uniform Title

Professional research paper.

Subject

• European Economic Community > Congresses
• Conférence intergouvernementale sur l'Union politique ((1990-1991))
• European federation > Congresses
• European federation > Congresses
• Europe > Economic integration > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Section 1: Introduction -- Overview of the negotiations / Finn Laursen, Sophie Vanhoonacker and Robert Wester -- A critical issue : from European Political Cooperation to a Common Foreign and Security Policy / Sophie Vanhoonacker -- Section 2: The Intergovernmental Conference on Political Union : national positions -- Belgium / Sophie Vanhoonacker -- The Federal Republic of Germany / Christa van Wijnbergen -- Denmark / Fin Laursen -- Greece / Arthur den Hartog -- Spain / Alberto Gil Ibañez -- France / Enrico Martial -- Ireland / Christa van Wijnbergen -- Italy / Enrico martial -- Luxembourg / Sophie Vanhoonacker -- The Netherlands / Robert Wester -- Portugal / Francisco de Meirelles -- United Kingdom / Robert Wester -- Section 3: Role and position of the Community actors -- The European Commission / Robert Wester -- The European Parliament / Sophie Vanhoonacker -- Section 4: Conclusions -- Explaining the Intergovernmental Conference on Political Union / Finn Laursen -- The Maastricht Treaty : a critical evaluation / Finn Laursen.

ISBN

0792316703 (HB : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^92006192^

OCLC

• 25412126
• SCSB-9968038

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library