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1980s
ОглавлениеJanuary 1, 1981: Greece becomes tenth member state of the EC.
January 6, 1981: Gaston Thorn (Luxembourg) becomes seventh president of the EC Commission.
May 10, 1981: François Mitterrand becomes president of France.
October 4, 1981: French franc devalued within the EMS. Further adjustments follow in February and June 1982 and March 1983.
November 19, 1981: Italian foreign minister Emilio Colombo and his German counterpart, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, explain their proposals for a European Act to the European Parliament.
June 17–19, 1983: Stuttgart European Council ends the Genscher–Colombo process by signing the “Solemn Declaration” on European Union.
February 14, 1984: The European Parliament adopts a proposal for a treaty on European Union.
June 14–17, 1984: Second elections to the European Parliament.
June 25–26, 1984: Fontainebleau European Council. British budgetary problem resolved amid euphoria. Dooge Committee on institutional reform launched.
January 7, 1985: Jacques Delors (France) becomes eighth president of the EC Commission.
June 12, 1985: Portugal and Spain sign their accession treaties. They enter the Community on January 1, 1986.
June 14, 1985 : The Commission submits its white paper, Completing the Internal Market.
June 28–29, 1985: Milan European Council calls an intergovernmental conference to decide amendments to the EEC treaty.
February 17 and 28, 1986: Single European Act (SEA) signed in Brussels.
May 23, 1986: Death of Altiero Spinelli.
May 29, 1986: The flag of the European Community (twelve gold stars arranged in a circle on a light blue background) is flown for the first time.
February 18, 1987: “Delors Package” proposing big increases in regional development funding presented to European Parliament.
July 1, 1987: SEA becomes law after all twelve member states complete ratification.
June 27–28, 1988: Hanover European Council renews Delors’s presidency of the Commission.
September 20, 1988: Bruges speech: Margaret Thatcher warns of a European “super-state.”
October 24, 1988: Court of First Instance instituted.
April 12, 1989: Presentation of the Delors Report.
June 15–18, 1989: Third elections to the European Parliament.
November 10, 1989: Fall of the Berlin Wall.
December 8–9, 1989: Strasbourg European Council launches IGC on monetary union and decides to set up the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to provide loans for the countries of Eastern Europe.
