join the eec造句

• The French partly feared that were the British to join the EEC they would attempt to dominate it.
• He also supported the campaign to join the EEC . He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Quintin Hogg from 1963.
• To join the EEC, countries had to meet two criteria : belonging to the European continent and obtain agreement from all member countries.
• He vetoed the British application to join the EEC in 1963, because he thought that the United Kingdom lacked the political will to join the community.
• As a consequence, Denmark and Norway applied to join the EEC and the Nordic Council of Ministers was set up in 1971 to ensure continued Nordic cooperation.
• Prior to 1962, it was an overseas department of France, an outermost region in EEC terminology, and has not attempted to join the EEC / EU after independence.
• By this time Norway had decided by referendum not to join the EEC, as had the Faroe Islands, which, as a Danish dependency, had the option to join but did not do so.
• For this reason most countries eased or eliminated their trade tariffs in preparation to join the EEC, but experienced declining revenue which reduced the importance of EFTA . Four members remain : Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland.
• Britain's application to join the EEC was vetoed by French President Charles de Gaulle on 29 January 1963, in due to his fear that'the end would be a colossal Atlantic Community dependent on America', and personal anger at the Anglo-American nuclear deal.
• As Minister of Foreign Affairs, he negotiated Cyprus'Customs Union Agreement with the then European Economic Community ( EEC ) in 1987 and in 1990 he submitted the application of Cyprus to join the EEC . In 2003 Mr Iacovou signed the Treaty of Accession of Cyprus to the European Union ( " EU " ).
• France argued that these obligations were potentially a threat to the stability of the pound, and that this could cause turbulence for the whole of the EEC . Agreement on winding down these balances was thus a necessary part of the agreement for Britain to join the EEC, and removed the main reason for continuing the area.
• On 31 July 1961 the United Kingdom, Ireland and Denmark applied to join the EEC . In 1963, after lengthy negotiations, France vetoed Britain's application because of the aversion of Charles de Gaulle to the UK, UK Prime Minister Harold Macmillan said afterwards that he always believed that de Gaulle would prevent Britain joining, but thought he would do it quietly, behind the scenes.
• For this reason they're interested in hearing the Commonwealth view on the negotiations and that's what I've tried to express . " Weal was invited to return to Britain and was urged to bring a member of the New Zealand Labour Party with him . " We wouldn't be here to play politics, but just to let people know what's in it for us if Britain joins the EEC, " he said.
• But it did not go well as the organization of Europe, because only the members of the coal and steel community'ECSC'( " the six " : Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembuourg, the Netherlands and West Germany ) joined the EEC . Seven of the remaining nations belonging to the Organization of European Economic Cooperation ( OEEC ) which administered the Marshall Plan, did not join the EEC but instead formed an alternative body, the European Free Trade Association ( EFTA ).
• Anti-metrication in the UK often manifests itself in conjunction with Euroscepticism, though the UK had taken steps toward compulsory metrication prior to European Union membership : in 1951, a Board of Trade committee unsuccessfully recommended metrication to the government, ten years before the UK first applied to join the EEC . The Board of Trade initiated metrication in 1965, with a target completion date of 1975 and the Metrication Board was established in 1968, five years before the UK actually joined the European Economic Community ( on its second attempt ).