Politica agricolă a statelor fondatoare ale comunităţii economice europene

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.