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Download (685Kb) Ecf/0003· European Community No. 8 October/November 1976 an elections European Community Contents Pol1t1cs .:a.. European Community is published on behalf of the Commission of the European Communities. European elections Carter on Europe London Office: 20 Kensington The basis for direct elections to the The President-elect of the United Palace Gardens, London W8 4QQ European Parliament. p3 States tells European Community Tel. 01-727 8090 "' about his plans. p!0-12 Dublin Office: 29 Merrion Square, Dublin 2. Tel. 76 03 53 The magazine is intended to give a concise view of current Community affairs anO stimulate discussions on European problems generally. It does not necessarily reflect the opiriions of the Community Institutions or of its editor. The Month.in Europe Fewer fish in the sea Its unsigned articles may be quoted The background to present or reprinted without payment if The green pound and more aid for Britain. p5 controversies over fishing limits. their source is acknowledged. p.13-16 Rights in signed articles should be negotiated with their authors. In either case, the editor would be glad Politics to receive the publication. .:a.. Printed by Edwin Snell printers, Yeovil, England European Community also appears in the following editions: 1(1111 30Jours d'Europe, 61 rue des Belles Feuilles, 75782 Paris Cedex 16. Citizens of Europe Tel. 553 5326 Sir Christopher Soames discusses European elections. p6-7 Communita Europea, Via Poli 29, 00187 Rome. Tel. 68 97 22 Europa Gammel Torv 4, Post Box 144, 1004 K0benhavn K. Tel. 144140/14 5512 The Community in December EG Magazin, 53 Bonn, Zitelmannstrasse 22, Social and Environment Ministers Tel. 23 8041 December 9 Europese Gemeenschap, Lange Councils Voorhout 29, The Hague. December 13-14 Foreign and Agricultural Ministers Tel. 070-4693 26 Councils Comunidad Europea, 200 rue de la Loi, 1040 Brussels. Tel. 735 00 40 December 15-16 Session of the European Parliament Europaiki Koinotis, 200 rue de la December 15-16 Economic and Social Committee Loi, I 040 Brussels. Tel. 735 00 40 plenary session A vrupa Toplulugu, Bogaz Sokak No. 13, Kavaklidere-Ankara. December 16 Finance Ministers Council (Fiscal Tel. 27 61 45-27 61 46 questions) and Transport Ministers Council European Community, 2100 M Street, NW, Washington DC 20037. December 20 Finance and Economic Ministers Tel. 872 8350 Council European elections The Council decides On September 20, 1976, the Com­ Independence munity's Council of Ministers ap­ Members are to vote on an proved and signed the Decision and individual and personal basis and Act providing for the direct election will not be by any instructioms or of the European Parliament in all receive a binding mandate. This does the Community's member States. not, of course, preclude their mem­ Their main provisions are as follows. bership of political parties or party groups. Deadline 1978 The Council's Decision declares National MPs OK its intention 'to give effect to the Members of the directly elected conclusions of the European Council European Parliament may simul­ in Rome on December I and 2, taneously be members of their 1975, that the election of the Assem­ national Parliaments. They may not, bly should be held on a single date however, be simultaneously members within the period May-June 1978.' of a national Government, the Commission, the Court of Justice, 410 members etc. The directly elected Parliament will have 410 seats, allocated as Election procedure follows: Elections to the European Par­ liament will be governed in each Belgium 24 member State by its own national Denmark 16 procedure, pending the entry into Germany 81 force of a uniform procedure, pro­ France 81 posals for which the European Ireland 15 Parliament itself is to draw up. Italy 81 Luxembourg 6 Election dates Netherlands 25 Each member State will determine United Kingdom 81 the date of the election, but on the understanding that it must fall within A 5-year term the same period for all member Members of the Parliament shall States, beginning on Thursday morn­ be elected for a five-year term of ing and ending on the evening of the office. following Sunday. Counting of votes European Community October/November 1976 3 may not begin until the Sunday the Folketing, and that until then the evening after the close of polling in Folketing will continue to nominate the last member State to vote. Danish members of the European For the first direct election, the Parliament, who must themselves be Council is to decide the period for Folketing members. The Danish polling,acting byunanimousvoteafter Government hopes that these excep­ consulting the European Parliament. tional provisions can be wholly or The next election is to take place in partly dropped during the first five the corresponding period five years years. later, but may if necessary be brought forward or put back one month. Berlin The German Government has declared that the agreement on direct Denmark elections applies equally to the Land Denmark has declared that it will of Berlin, whose Chamber of Depu­ hold direct elections to the European ties will elect representatives to those Parliament at the same time as the seats in the German allocation that election of its national Parliament, are earmarked for Berlin. 4 European Community October/November 1976 The month in Europe The Green Pound with expansion plans which will re­ At the meeting of Community employ redundant steelworkers and Agricultural Ministers on October 5, coal miners in Wales, Scotland, and 1976, the British Government suc­ Northern England. cessfully resisted pressure to de­ On October 13, 1976, the Com­ value the 'green pound'. It is mission announced a further £27·5 estimated that the maintenance of million loan to the National Coal the 'green pound' at its present level Board to finance investments at the is now causing the Community to following collieries: Ackton Hall in subsidise UK food supplies to the North Yorkshire, Brodsworth in tune of about £1,500,000 a day. At Doncaster, Bentinck in South Not­ the same meeting, the Irish 'green tinghamshire, Bevercotes and Silver­ pound' was devalued by 7·5 per cent. hill in North Nottinghamshire, Silverdale in Staffordshire, and Bold. Cross-border study St. Helens in the North-Western On September 27, 1976, the Com­ coalfield. mission's Director-General for Re­ These loans bring to well over gion Policy, Renato Ruggiero, spoke £1,000 million the Community loans at the formal launching of a joint so far received by Britain. Total study by the UK and Irish Govern­ grants received by the UK from ments into cross-border communi­ Community sources total some £233 cations in the Derry city and million. Donegal areas. The Community's Regional Fund is contributing £35,000 to the study, and will also contribute its experience of similar ventures elsewhere. Quote of the month 'European union is rather like More cash for Britain paradise. All of us want to get On September 27, 1976, the Com­ there. No one knows what it is like. mission announced that it had And no one knows the way there. completed arrangements with Fi­ We only know that it is extra­ nance for Industry Ltd., to make ordinarily difficult.' available a £10 million loan over the Sir Oliver Wright, UK Ambassador next three years to small businesses in Germany, speaking in Berlin on in the UK. The aim is to help them September 17, 1976 European Community October/November 1976 5 Politics .la Citizens of • Europe Sir Christopher Soames on European elections Speaking at Whitchurch on Sep­ purposes are such as to justify the tember 18, 1976, two days before the view that it is poised to make a Council decision announced on page comprehensive take-over bid for the 3, Commission Vice-President Sir functions and responsibilities of its Christopher Soames declared: member States. 'Let us, above all, be clear as to In fact, of course, the powers and what the significance of these elec­ responsibilities of the member States tions will be. are not only intact in the areas not 'They will not - and this will covered by the treaties - they are please some of you and disappoint also deeply entrenched within the others - they will not usher in a fields of action which the treaties federal European state or a sort of provide for the Community institu­ United States of Europe. You have tions .... only to look at the ground-rules under which the directly elected European Parliament will work to Direct Elections see why this is so .... 'But what of the more pos1t1ve side: granted that the powers of the Integration European Parliament are thus cir­ 'Nevertheless, . the running of a cumscribed and counter-balanced Common Market for industrial and and are unlikely to develop with agricultural goods in Western Europe great rapidity - granted all this, why is already in itself an enormous is it so important that the Parliament operation with far-reaching ramifi­ should be directly elected? cations in many fields of policy - 'The importance of direct elections external trade policy, competition lies first of all in the fact that they policy, industrial, regional and social will extend real democratic account­ policy, economic and fiscal policy. ability into areas of Community And our ambition is to build on this decision-making which cannot at unified market an increasingly inte­ present be subjected to effective grated economic system and an Parliamentary scrutiny. increasingly unified foreign policy. 'In the Community structure as it The Community is therefore an is at present, accountability to the enterprise of first-class importance in electorate is only indirect, exercised world terms - and its stature will through the nominated European continue to grow.
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