Following the Brussels European Council, held on 29 and 30 June 1987, in its summer edition the federalist journal L'Europe en formation, analyses the disagreements between Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister, and her European counterparts over the Delors plan guidelines.

In its autumn 1987 edition, the federalist journal L'Europe en formation analyses the reasons for the failure of the Copenhagen European Council of 4 and 5 December 1987 on the adoption of the Delors Package.

On 18 February 1987, Jacques Delors, President of the Commission of the European Communities, outlines what will be the focus of the Commission Communication entitled Making a success of the Single Act: a new frontier for Europe to the European Parliament.

On 30 June 1987, the Brussels European Council issues its conclusions on the Commission communication entitled Making a success of the Single Act: a new frontier for Europe.

On 29 June 1987, as the European Council opens in Brussels, French President François Mitterrand expresses his optimism at the planned reform of Community funding put forward by the European Commission.

‘From hole to hole.’ In 1984, the German cartoonist, Walter Hanel, illustrates the difficulties faced by the Ten in resolving the crisis of the financing of the Community budget.

Table showing the evolution of Community income by Member State between 1983 and 1993.

In November-December 1979, the federalist magazine L'Europe en formation calls for an increase in the European Community's own resources so as to guarantee its ability to function and enable it to fulfil its tasks in the proper manner.

On 28 February 1987, the Commission submits to the Council and to Parliament a report on the financing of the Community budget in which it notes the growing disparity between resources and Community requirements and the need to establish a system of medium-term expenditure planning with the aim of strengthening management efficiency.

In his editorial of 14 November 1984, Emanuele Gazzo, Director of Agence Europe, openly criticises the new budgetary discipline envisaged by the Council and, lamenting the way in which certain Community institutions operate, declares that the Community is deviating from its fundamental tasks.