Suárez Cabinet Plan: introducing Europe to the Spanish people (1978-1980)

Authors

  • Jorge Lafuente del Cano University of Valladolid – Segovia , Universidad de Valladolid – Segovia

Keywords:

Spain, transition to democracy, international relations, Europe, Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, EEC

Abstract

Spain’s joining the European Economic Community was a major idea of spanish foreign policy for several decades of the twentieth century. The government of Adolfo Suárez established in 1978 the Department for European Communities, led by Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, who pushed forward the negotiating process. Calvo-Sotelo pointed the information program as a priority of his projects: the idea of explaining spaniards the sense of the Common Market, the arguments to access and the consequences of get it. The article has the basis on unpublished documents of his personal Archive, and offers the main ideas and projects that were carried out from the Department for European Communities.

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Published

2017-03-08

Issue

No. 34 (2014)

Section

MISCELLANY

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