Dealing with Britain : The Six and the First UK Application to the EEC

N Piers Ludlow
Cambridge University Press
9780521595360
0-521-59536-3

Britain's 1961 application was the first time that the European Community was obliged to consider a membership application from one of its neighbors. Piers Ludlow's study challenges traditional views of.

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the British application and casts new light on the way in which the EEC responded to the challenge of enlargement. The book provides an original analysis of a crucial chapter in European history, and offers important insights into differing conceptions of the European Community that remain relevant to contemporary debates.