Austria’s relations with the European Communities in the 1980s
Interview with Manfred Scheich: Austria’s European integration policy in the early 1980s (Hildesheim, 2 November 2009)
VideoIn this interview, Manfred Scheich, Austrian Ambassador to the European Communities from 1983 to 1986, outlines the basis of Austria’s European integration policy in the early 1980s.
Interview with Manfred Scheich: the incompatibility between Austrian neutrality and accession to the European Communities (Hildesheim, 2 November 2009)
VideoIn this interview, Manfred Scheich, Austrian Ambassador to the European Communities from 1983 to 1986, gives the Austrian authorities’ interpretation of the country’s neutral status, and explains how this interpretation was incompatible with accession to the European Communities.
Interview with Manfred Scheich: the influence of perestroika on Austria’s European integration policy (Hildesheim, 2 November 2009)
VideoIn this interview, Manfred Scheich, Austrian Ambassador to the European Communities from 1983 to 1986, describes the progress from confrontation to cooperation between Western and Eastern Europe in the mid-1980s, and analyses the influence of this development on Austria’s European integration policy.
Interview with Manfred Scheich: the reasons for Austria’s rapprochement with the European Communities (Hildesheim, 2 November 2009)
VideoIn this interview, Manfred Scheich, Austrian Ambassador to the European Communities from 1983 to 1986, explains the economic and historical factors that led to Austria’s rapprochement with the European Communities.
Interview with Manfred Scheich: the 1984 Luxembourg Declaration (Hildesheim, 2 November 2009)
VideoIn this interview, Manfred Scheich, Austrian Ambassador to the European Communities from 1983 to 1986, discusses Austria’s position during the first ministerial meeting between the countries of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and the Member States of the European Communities in April 1984 in Luxembourg.