HIST-1106EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Rebound Effect, Whittling, Indian Railways
13 Nov 2020
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Uk (2nd time) + denmark, ireland, norway apply to join eec (2nd time): f reject application by unilateral declaration by de gaulle (within 5 months). => rebuff: four countries left applications lying on the table". Mansholt plan (commission document com(68)1000): sets out proposals to resolve problems of production surpluses, inadequate farm incomes over following decade. => induce 5 million people to leave farming (4 million retire, 1 million find alternative jobs in other sectors). => labour force reduction would release land, used to restructure farms, withdraw from agricultural production to cut surpluses: did not help oversupply problem. Farmers" pension was extremely low, thus not attractive to stop working. Reactions of farming community: were mad, proposal too radical, dimension of farms proposed removed from reality, commission attacked of attacking family farm. Cap: early achievements = common prices, undermined by changes in exchange rates between mss.
