‘In the Brussels labyrinth: "Now then, let's make sure that we don't we get lost and that we remember the way out!"' On 29 July 1962, the day after the address given by Bruno Kreisky, Austrian Foreign Minister, to the Council of the European Economic Community (EEC), the Vienna-based daily newspaper Arbeiter-Zeitung portrays the obstacles impeding the future Association Agreement between Austria, Sweden and Switzerland and the EEC.