Table showing changes in the working farm population in the European Community from 1973 to 1985.

Table showing the total amount of agricultural products imported by the Community from Greece, Spain and Portugal from 1975 to 1976.

On 26 July 1977, in the context of negotiations for the accession of Spain and Portugal to the European Communities, France submits a memorandum to the European Commission, calling for an urgent revision of Community regulations concerning Mediterranean agricultural products.

On 30 July 1977, commenting on Spain’s application for accession to the European Communities, the French Communist daily newspaper L’Humanité reports on the threats that a possible enlargement of the EEC would represent for French agriculture.

Text of the address given by the Chairman of the Agriculture Committee, Franco Bortolani, during the visit of the Spanish Agriculture Minister, José Enrique Martínez Genique, to Italy. The address focuses on the position of the Italian Government with regard to Spain’s accession to the European Communities.

Letter from Carlos Robles Piquer, Spanish Ambassador to Rome, to Marcelino Oreja, Spanish Foreign Minister, on the presence of the Spanish Agriculture Minister, José Enrique Martínez Genique, at the 19th FAO Conference held in Rome in November 1977.

In its 18 November 1977 edition, the Italian periodical Il Popolo reports on the statement by José Enrique Martínez Genique on the need for a reform of European agriculture.

In its 18 November 1977 edition, the Italian daily newspaper Il Resto del Carlino dedicates an article to the agricultural problems associated with Spain’s accession to the European Communities.

Lecture given by the Official Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Madrid at the Annual General Meeting of the Standing Conference of the Spanish and Italian Chambers of Commerce, held in Rome on 15 December 1977, on Spain’s aims within the EEC and the consequences of its accession.

On 13 September 1978, the French daily newspaper Le Monde gives a description of Spanish agriculture and outlines the fears of French farmers at Spain’s accession to the European Common Market.

Table showing the development of the agricultural labour force in thousands of people, and in the number of people per 100ha of usable agricultural area, in the countries of the European Community during the 1980s.

On 17 November 1982, the European Parliament adopts a resolution on the impact of the accession of Spain and Portugal on the agricultural policy of the Ten.

Table showing the change in the agricultural area covered by orange groves, vineyards, olive groves, apple orchards and pear plantations in Mediterranean countries between 1983 and 1988.

Summary of the address given by Lorenzo Natali, Vice-President of the Commission of the European Communities, at the University of Perugia on 30 January 1983 on the general aspects and consequences for agriculture of the accession of Spain and Portugal to the European Economic Community.

On 29 December 1984, the Spanish daily newspaper El País reports on the meeting of the monitoring committee for the negotiations in the Spanish Congress of Deputies held the previous day, during which Fernando Morán, Spanish Foreign Minister, expressed doubts that Spain would accede to the European Economic Community on 1 January 1986.

‘Come in!’ In February 1985, with a view to the forthcoming accession of Portugal and Spain to the European Communities, the German cartoonist, Horst Haitzinger, illustrates the impact of enlargement on agriculture.

In March 1985, the French monthly magazine Le Monde Diplomatique discusses the situation of Spanish agriculture on the eve of that country's accession to the European Economic Community (EEC).

On 12 June 1985, the French daily newspaper Le Monde examines the position of Spain’s agricultural community towards the issue of Spain’s membership of the European Economic Community (EEC).

According to a report published in the Spanish daily newspaper El País on 16 July 1985, Frans Andriessen, Vice-President of the European Commission with special responsibility for agriculture and fisheries, warns of potential difficulties ahead when the terms for Spanish accession to the European Communities are applied.