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European Political Cooperation After The Single European Act: The Future Of Foreign Affairs In The European Communities, Daniel T. Murphy

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The Single European Act (SEA) consists of two ostensibly unrelated sets of provisions, both of which are intended to contribute to unification among members of the European Communities. Perhaps the major, and most widely publicized, provisions of the SEA consist of amendments to the Treaty of Rome (EEC Treaty). The remaining provisions of the SEA, predominately title III, formalize the system of European Political Cooperation (EPC) within the member states.

Although not widely written about, or perhaps appreciated in this country, EPC has become an efficient system for coordinating foreign affairs positions within the European Economic Community (EPC). The EEC …

The System Of European Political Cooperation: A Brief Explanation, Daniel T. Murphy

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Although the European Economic Communities more frequently are taking what appear to be institutional positions on foreign policy and political issues of grave concern to the world community, it is not inappropriate for them to do so. The longterm goals of the Communities in part are political, as expressed in the Treaty of Rome. In the preamble to the Treaty the signatories state that they are "[d]etermined to lay the foundations of an even closer union among the European peoples." Article 2 provides, in part, that one of the tasks of the Common Market is to promote "closer relations between …