INTA 2221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Carnation Revolution, Single European Act, European Single Market
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40% vote for a party, the party gets 40 seats) 1979: first direct election to ep- you have the first democratic input into the leadership of what is now the eu (huge milestone) Britain would become the largest ne contributor to the budget: delors-1984: new start. Thatcher light economic and financial aspect of the european community, which came after the merger treaty. She said to them you are making us pay too much to join this conference and if you don"t fix it we are going to have problem. Now every didn"t depend on the cap(common agriculture policy) because they had a small year the uk gets a rebate (they pay in their fair share and then get some of it back)- She saw it that british were pouring a lot of money in and not getting a lot back. So, to keep the british happy they gave them a rebate.