This chapter analyses the United Kingdom’s experience as an EIB shareholder. After the two French vetoes to the British membership in 1963 and 1967, the Hague conference of December 1969 opened the way to the first enlargement of the EEC to Denmark, Ireland, and the United Kingdom in 1973. As the membership of the Bank was an obligation under the Treaty of Rome, the three candidates would join the Bank on joining the Community.

The unknown institution: The United Kingdom and the EIB (1973–1999)

lucia coppolaro
2022

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This chapter analyses the United Kingdom’s experience as an EIB shareholder. After the two French vetoes to the British membership in 1963 and 1967, the Hague conference of December 1969 opened the way to the first enlargement of the EEC to Denmark, Ireland, and the United Kingdom in 1973. As the membership of the Bank was an obligation under the Treaty of Rome, the three candidates would join the Bank on joining the Community.
2022
Deciphering the European Investment Bank: History, Politics, and Economics
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