The EEC Crisis of 1963

General Editor's Foreword Introduction PART I: GRAND DESIGNS AND THE RATIONALE BEHIND THE FIRST BRITISH EEC NEGOTIATIONS, 1960-63 Fundamental Questions Macmillan's Grand Design (1959/60) as a Starting Point for the Application The Main Obstacle: de Gaulle Quid-pro-Quo Deal? Differing American Ideas Kennedy's Rethinking: the American Offer Adenauer Takes his Stand PART II: THE STORY OF ADENAUER'S AND DE GAULLE'S 'COMPROMISE': A FRESH LOOK AT THE CRITICAL EVENTS OF JANUARY 1963 Nassau, a New Look at its Meaning and its Promotion Heath and the Atlanticists - Heath's 'Big Push' Before the Veto de Gaulle's Infamous Press Conference The Ministerial Meeting - A First Dramatic Encounter Anglo-American Co-ordination Towards a Breakdown in Brussels Adenauer's and de Gaulle's Plan for a Compromise Hysteria in the Western Camp: the Days Between 22 and 28 January, 1963 The Breakdown in Brussels - Purely the Fault of the French? Conclusion Index