On 9 July 1982, the European Parliament adopts a resolution in which it calls on the European Commission to indicate which proposals it intends to submit so that the enlargement to include Spain and Portugal does not lead to a weakening of the Community but rather represents an opportunity for a deepening of common policies and a strengthening of the decision-making process.

On 11 and 12 December 1998, the Vienna European Council adopts the report approved by the Justice and Home Affairs Council on 3 December 1998 in Brussels on the action plan of the Council and the Commission concerning the optimum terms for putting in place the provisions of the Amsterdam Treaty regarding the establishment of an area of freedom, security and justice.

Council Decision 1999/468/EC of 28 June 1999 laying down the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission.

Council Decision of 13 July 1987, laying down the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission.

Declarations on Council Decision 1999/468/EC of 28 June 1999 laying down the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission.

According to a report published in the Spanish daily newspaper El País on 16 July 1985, Frans Andriessen, Vice-President of the European Commission with special responsibility for agriculture and fisheries, warns of potential difficulties ahead when the terms for Spanish accession to the European Communities are applied.

On 25 September 1982, Giovanni Spadolini, President of the Italian Council, forwards a list of problems to Gaston Thorn, President of the European Commission, which must be resolved before the conclusion of negotiations concerning the accession of Spain and Portugal to the European Communities.

Interview with Jacques Delors, President of the Commission of the European Communities from 1985 to 1995, conducted by the Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe (CVCE) on 16 December 2009 at the Paris-based premises of the think tank ‘Notre Europe’, of which Jacques Delors is the founding director. The interview, conducted by Hervé Bribosia, Research Coordinator at the CVCE, particularly focuses on the following subjects: the think tank ‘Notre Europe’, the concept of a ‘federation of nation states’ and the Community method, the Treaty of Lisbon and the institutional reform of the European Union, the role of the national parliaments, the European Convention and the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe, the future of the procedure for the revision of the treaties, the spill-over effect, differentiated integration and reinforced cooperation, the EU’s borders and Turkey’s application for accession.

In this interview excerpt, Bernard Snoy et d’Oppuers, an official at the World Bank from 1974 to 1979 and from 1980 to 1986, Economic Adviser at the Commission of the European Communities in the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs from 1986 to 1988, Executive Director of the World Bank from 1991 to 1994, Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) from 1994 to 2002 and Chairman of Robert Triffin International since 2008, explains the origins of the European ideals of his father, Jean-Charles Snoy et d’Oppuers, a former Belgian diplomat and politician and early advocate of the European cause. He also discusses his father’s decision to become a civil servant. Finally, he describes the influence of the United States, through the Marshall Plan, on the early days of the European integration process.

Interinstitutional Agreement of 6 May 1999 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on budgetary discipline and improvement of the budgetary procedure.