The+first+enlargement+and+the+UK+controversy

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=**The first enlargement and the UK controversy** = = = 

 In the year 1961, the United Kingdom, as well as Denmark and Ireland applied for membership. The French president Charles De Gaulle, refused the membership of the UK twice, affirming that the **United Kingdom** was not enough “European”, and that it did not have the necessary will to be a Member State of the European Union. The application of Britain is set aside, already knowing that it would have been discussed again in the near future. In fact, just four years later, the same countries reapplied for member ship, as well as Norway, that formally applied for the first time in 1962. Even at that point General De Gaulle demonstrated his reluctance, and on November the 27th, he vetoed the accession of Britain for the second time.  //Source: [|www.ena.lu]//

Finally, in **1973**, the **United Kingdom**, **Ireland**, **Denmark** and Norway sign the Treaties of Accession to the European Community. In fact, Georges Pompidou, the President that succeeded De Gaulle, accepted the enlargement to UK ; one of the reason why he accepted it, apart from the fact that he did not want to obstacle the work of the partner states, was that Ireland, Norway and Denmark, all three had important and close commercial relationship with the UK. 


  
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