Abstract:
After the Second World War the process of European reconstructions
enters a new stage. The constitution of the Council of Europe and of the
European Community of Coal and Steel in 1951 encouraged the efforts of the
defendants of the European union. The years 1954-1957 are the years when
they proceeded to constitute the Common Market. The talks held around the
objectives of the new community put to light interests diametrically opposed
among some states that supported the unity of the European West as a first
stage of the unity of our continent. The idea of reintroducing the European
unification projects had emerged from the Benelux states which have
proposed on the 20th of May 1955 the Bayen Plan to all CECO states
member. The Dutchman Bayen, the author of the project, had sustained the
custom integration between the Sixth in the agricultural area. It had been
proven that the agricultural policy discussion of the future community is due
to the urging of France. France had considered that „we couldn’t conceive
the initiation of a Common General Market in Europe”, we couldn’t speak
about a common agricultural policy “without including the agriculture”. The
French State had to take into account the fact that its farms were, most of
them, owned by the small proprietors who were using a quarter of the French
labor force. All these were largely represented in the French Parliament. In
order to achieve the popular approval for the idea of a common market it
was necessary a large policy which could offer to the French farmers the
perspective of a good’s market. The Rome treaty which instituted the
Economical Community aimed the development of an agricultural
harmonious policy which involved also the achievement of a “custom union”
Our research emphasizes the strong contradiction between France and Great
Britain with regard to agricultural policies in the new European organism
that was about to be born, conflict that resulted in the wihdrawal of Great
Britain from the negotiations pertaining to the constitution of the European
Economic Community.
