Analysis by the Elcano Royal Institute setting out the prevailing views in Spain on the state of European integration in March 2006, a time when the European Union is facing the constitutional crisis and the debates on enlargement to the East.

On 20 July 1977, the French daily newspaper Le Figaro comments on Spain’s application for accession to the European Economic Community.

By resolution of 8 May 1985, the European Parliament gives its opinion on the Council's decision concerning the Community enlargement to include Spain and Portugal. The Parliament welcomes in particular the conclusion of the accession negotiations and declares its approval, with one exception, of the institutional agreements.

On 12 June 1985, in Madrid and Lisbon, the Heads of State or Government of the Ten and those of Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Accession of Spain and Portugal to the European Economic Community (EEC) and to the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC).

Article written by Jacobus Albertus Wilhelmus Burger, President of the Netherlands Socialist parliamentary group, published on 2 April 1962 in the Courrier Socialiste Européen, criticising the possibility of Spain’s future accession to or association with the European Communities.

Question by Santiago Carrillo Solares, MP in the Joint Parliamentary Group, and response from Gonzalo Puente Ojea, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, at the session of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Spanish Congress of Deputies held on 12 May 1983, regarding Spain’s attendance at the meeting of the NATO Planning Group and the monitoring of the situation of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Madrid.

Published on 18 June 1985 in the Spanish daily newspaper El País, following the establishment by the European Commission of the Community’s preliminary draft budget for 1986, this article analyses the benefits that Spain and Portugal will receive from the various budget lines, with particular regard to the Structural Funds.

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.

Selection published in Euronoticias of the most significant points of the analysis carried out by the Spanish Confederation of Employers' Organisations (CEOE) on the first nine months of Spain's presence in the European institutions.

On 18 February 1986, Paolo M. Falcone, Secretary General of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament, submits to the members of his group a note drafted by Enrique Barón, Head of the Spanish Delegation, on the foreign policy strategy of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) during the democratic transition, with particular reference to NATO.