Challenging French leadership in in Europe: Germany, Italy and the Netherlands and the outbreak of the Empty Chair Crisis of 1965-6

Ludlow, N. Piers ORCID: 0000-0002-4883-4536 (1999) Challenging French leadership in in Europe: Germany, Italy and the Netherlands and the outbreak of the Empty Chair Crisis of 1965-6. Contemporary European History, 8 (2). pp. 231-248. ISSN 1469-2171

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Abstract

The Empty Chair Crisis of 1965–66 has traditionally been seen as a constitutional crisis, caused by the different European visions of General de Gaulle and the Commission president, Hallstein. This article will argue, however, that the root cause of the crisis was a clash over the programme of the EEC and, at a deeper level, about the leadership of the Community. Germany, Italy and the Netherlands, it will suggest, used the 1965 common agricultural policy negotiations to challenge the traditionally prominent position of the French. In response, de Gaulle had little choice other than to escalate the crisis and launch a six-month boycott of Community institutions.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJourna...
Additional Information:	© 1999 Cambridge University Press
Divisions:	International History
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D901 Europe (General)
Date Deposited:	20 Jan 2010 15:43
Last Modified:	11 Nov 2024 02:18
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/26789

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