An environmental project co-funded by the Community Cohesion Fund in the Ebro region in Spain with the aim of preventing erosion and developing a plan for reforestation. Since 1994, the Cohesion Fund has contributed to the financing of major projects involving the environment and trans-European transport networks.
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 5 August 1982, the British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, outlines to Gaston Thorn, President of the European Commission, the United Kingdom’s views on the enlargement of the European Communities to include Spain and Portugal.
On 12 June 2006, in an article in a special supplement published to mark the 20th anniversary of Spain’s accession to the European Communities, the Spanish daily newspaper El País gives a brief overview of the career paths of 17 Spaniards who have held senior positions in Brussels.
'A small contribution to the Community of European Peoples'. In May 1962, the cartoonist, Berhendt, criticises the power of the dictators in Spain and Portugal, who exclude the Iberian Peninsula from the process of European integration.
Le 26 mars 1996, Carlos Westendorp y Cabeza, ministre espagnol des Affaires étrangères, prononce à l'Académie royale de jurisprudence et de législation à Madrid un discours dans lequel il décrit la position de l'Espagne par rapport à la révision du traité sur l'Union européenne examinée par la Conférence intergouvernementale (CIG) devant s'ouvrir le 29 mars à Turin.
On 18 Feburary 2005, in Madrid, Mariano Rajoy Brey, leader of the People’s Party (PP), argues in favour of the ‘Yes’ vote during a meeting organised two days before the national referendum on the ratification of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe.
