In the referendum held on 25 September 1972, the Norwegians vote against their country joining the European Communities. The following day, RTL 7p.m. news broadcast covers the issue in depth and gives its listeners the opportunity to hear the opinions of Sicco Mansholt, President of the European Commission, and Jean Monnet, Chairman of the Action Committee for a United States of Europe.
From 27 to 29 April 1956, with the help of the Socialist Movement for the United States of Europe (SMUSE), the European Congress of Labour — attended by Paul-Henri Spaak, Sicco Mansholt, Guy Mollet and Jean Monnet — holds a meeting in Paris, at the end of which it adopts a resolution in which it expresses its support for the establishment of a Common Market and emphasises its agricultural, social and institutional implications.
Note drafted by the Commission of the European Communities in Brussels on 10 May 1972. The document indicates that the Commission has been encouraged to participate in the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe within the framework of political cooperation. It also outlines the steps that Sicco Mansholt, President of the Commission, has taken in order to keep regular track of the work that the Commission is undertaking for this Conference.
In this interview, Georges Rencki, former Deputy Director in the Private Office of Sicco Mansholt, Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the common agricultural policy, discusses the organisation and outcome of the Stresa Conference held from 3 to 12 July 1958 on the establishment of a common agricultural policy.
From 27 to 29 April 1956, at the end of its meeting in Paris, with the help of the Socialist Movement for the United States of Europe (SMUSE), the European Congress of Labour — attended by Paul-Henri Spaak, Sicco Mansholt, Guy Mollet and Jean Monnet — adopts a series of resolutions on the social objectives of the future European Economic Community (EEC).
From 27 to 29 April 1956, with the help of the Socialist Movement for the United States of Europe (SMUSE), the European Congress of Labour — attended by Paul-Henri Spaak, Sicco Mansholt, Guy Mollet and Jean Monnet — holds a meeting in Paris, at the end of which it adopts a resolution on the objectives of Euratom and the conditions for its establishment.
‘The European family … Bon appétit!’ On 11 January 1958, referring to the entry into force of the Treaties establishing the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom), the Dutch cartoonist, Opland, illustrates the advantages that the Member States of the Communities hope to enjoy: Belgium is eating coal and steel, France is eating Euratom, Germany is benefiting from the Common Market and Italy is devouring the investments of the European Investment Bank (EIB), while the Netherlands is represented as a bookmark inserted into a volume of European law and the thin cat, Sicco Mansholt, Netherlands Member and Vice-President of the Commission of the EEC, must make do with the leftovers.
Meeting in Paris from 19 to 21 October 1972, the Heads of State or Government of the Communities, newly enlarged to include nine Member States, affirm their intention to transform, before the end of the present decade, the whole complex of their relations into a European Union. They take decisions concerning Economic and Monetary Union, the Monetary Cooperation Fund and regional policy. From left to right: Pierre Werner (Luxembourg Minister of State and President of the Government), Gaston Eyskens (Belgian Prime Minister), Jack Lynch (Irish Prime Minister), Anker Jorgensen (Danish Prime Minister), Willy Brandt (Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany), Barend W. Biesheuvel (Netherlands Prime Minister), Georges Pompidou (President of the French Republic), Edward Heath (British Prime Minister), Giulio Andreotti (Italian Prime Minister) and Sicco Mansholt (President of the Commission of the European Communities).
From 3 to 12 July 1958, the delegations of the Six meet in Stresa, Italy, to discuss the introduction of a common agricultural policy (CAP) with Walter Hallstein, President of the European Commission, and Sicco Mansholt, Commissioner with special responsibility for Agriculture.