Franco-British relations and Europe, from EEC membership to Brexit

The historian (agrégé, PhD Sorbonne) Olivier Sibre specializes in international relations, religion, and politics, and has written extensively on the Holy See, East Asia, and Europe. He is director of studies and Research at the Institut Georges Pompidou and seminar lecturer in international relations at Sorbonne University, as well as a member of SIRICE.

• Table of contentsList of Figures....................................................................................................................................................3Introduction......................................................................................................................................................4Olivier Sibre ....................................................................................................................................................4Preliminary Remarks.......................................................................................................................................6Guillaume Lacroix..........................................................................................................................................6The Anglo-French Sibling Rivalry: From a Family Affair to the Pompidou-Heath Cooperation.......7Beatrice Heuser...............................................................................................................................................7Into the European Community at Last: Reinventing Britain as a European Power?..........................17Anne Deighton.............................................................................................................................................17Turning the Tables: General de Gaulle’s Vetoes of Britain’s Applications to Join the EEC ................27Agnès Tachin.................................................................................................................................................27The Long Shadow of the Veto: Edward Heath, Georges Pompidou and the May 1971 Paris Summit................................................................................................................................................................................36Daniel Furby .................................................................................................................................................36Fighting the ‘Economic War’: Georges Pompidou, Edward Heath and Industrial Policy at the End of the ‘Glorious Thirty’ (1969–1974) .................................................................................................................46Cesare Vagge..................................................................................................................................................58Competition and Credit Control (CCC).....................................................................................................56Marie-Claude Esposito.................................................................................................................................56Enoch Powell’s Stance on Europe in the Heath Years: The Development of Euroscepticism Within the Conservative Party Avant la Lettre........................................................................................................64Stéphane Porion ...........................................................................................................................................64Rivalling the French?: The Impact and Effectiveness of British European Policymaking, 1973–199076Piers Ludlow.................................................................................................................................................76Georges Pompidou and the Anglo-American Plot Behind the Creation of a ‘Monument’ for the Modernisation of France ...............................................................................................................................84Boris Hamzeian ............................................................................................................................................84Preserving the Archives of the Presidents of the French Republic: The Example of Georges Pompidou ........................................................................................................................................................92Bénédicte Fichet ...........................................................................................................................................92Appendix........................................................................................................................................................104The Edward Heath archives conserved at the Bodleian Library...........................................................104Testimony by Juliet Campbell....................................................................................................................106Notes on Contributors.................................................................................................................................107