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Portugal, Spain, and Europe: from the parallelism of the accession negotiations to the capitalisation of the third enlargement of the European Economic Community

2018; Instituto Português de Relações Internacionais; Issue: SI2018 Linguagem: Inglês

10.23906/ri2018.sia03

2183-0436

Alice Cunha,

European Union Policy and Governance

portuguesCentrando-se na candidatura portuguesa de adesao a Comunidade Economica Europeia, este artigo procura demonstrar que a simultaneidade das negociacoes de adesao de Portugal e de Espanha atrasaram a adesao portuguesa, assim como o facto de, embora os Estados-membros serem favoraveis em principio ao novo alargamento, terem lidado com o processo ao seu ritmo e de acordo com as suas proprias e muito particulares exigencias, pelo que procuraremos demonstrar de que modo e que os interesses dos Estados-membros condicionaram todo o processo negocial. EnglishThis article focuses on the Portuguese application for membership to the European Economic Community, seeking to demonstrate that Portuguese accession was delayed as a result of the simultaneity of Portugal and Spain’s accession negotiations. It also analyses the fact that although Member States were theoretically in favour of further enlargement, they dealt with the process at their own pace, and in accordance with their own specific requirements; we therefore show how the interests of the Member States conditioned the accession process.