EEC - Page 8 of 8

Six Moments of Crisis: inside British foreign policy by Gill Bennett

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[PDF file]: […] be called the official-unofficial record. Here is an example from the EC membership application chapter. We learn that: ‘The decision to apply for British membership of the EEC was taken at a meeting held in the Prime Minister’s room in the House of Commons at 3pm on Friday 21 July 1961…..A hot Friday afternoon […]

‘Nobody told us we could do this’

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)

[PDF file]: […] they attracted immense publicity and remained a critical feature of domestic UK political life, breathlessly anticipated each month by the media until the UK’s entry into the EEC in 1973 when regular bulletins about how the Sterling Area was performing became somewhat less important.2 9 The mixture of assertions and assumptions that the Treasury […]

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