Mr Neil Marten: ...the proposal in February 1973 or 1974 that we should have a European Parliament. He was the initiator of the size of it and the way it was to run. Could we call him as a witness? Could we call the Gaullist Party representatives who want 198 seats and no more? They are obviously blocking the whole thing—bless them—and they are very relevant to the Committee because the Govern- ment...
Mr Neil Marten: If the Prime Minister sees the Prime Minister of France, will he reflect that the views of the British people are very much in line with those of the Gaullist Party, that if the Common Market continues to develop it should develop on the lines of Europe des patries? As it is now 3.30 p.m., may I congratulate the Prime Minister on the dexterity with which he has tried to answer, not always...
Mr Brian Sedgemore: ...do less of whatever it is they do in Europe and v/ere to study taxation and expenditure on social services, welfare and health, for example, they would report that we as a nation barely match up to Gaullist France, that we are to the Right of Social Democratic Germany and light years away from more Socialist Sweden. They would report that the House is in danger of becoming Europe's...
Mr Julian Critchley: ...initiative is the child of the Euro-group. While Giscard himself, were he a free agent, would accept the invitation for France to attend, he is dependent for his majority in the Chambre on the Gaullist Party, on the UDR, and any such move by France at this juncture would be seen to be a return to the military organisation of NATO itself. It remains true, nevertheless, that an initiative...
Mr Russell Johnston: ...supply, and the need for further availability of funds for more North Sea development. Now the Foreign Secretary says that there is no common energy policy and he makes that the defence for his Gaullist approach—for that is what it is. What the expected differences between our country and the other members of the Community would be, or where there were likely to be frictions and...
Mr Christopher Tugendhat: ...House, and the reasons for it, but does he accept that we must consider the Community and British membership of it in the round and that if the British Government decide to adopt a Chauvinistic and Gaullist attitude on some matters—for instance, the forthcoming consumer-producer dialogue—it will not be surprising if other countries adopt a less co-operative attitude than we should like...
Mr David Steel: ...that particular decision was taken. I found it extremely embarrassing, as a new and supposedly, post-referendum, wholehearted committed member of the Community, to have to explain away this sudden Gaullist approach to European affairs. I hope that the Chief Secretary will recognise the effect that this sort of approach is having in the Community. I find it deeply disturbing. When...
Mr John Roper: ...) but the opinion of the Budget Committee, which appears in the same document, No. 115/75. Interestingly enough, it is not a report drafted by a member from this House; it was drafted by a former Gaullist French Minister of Agriculture, M. Cointat, on behalf of the Budget Committee. Giving the view of the European Parliament, that report said: The Committee also deplores the fact that...
Mr Jeremy Thorpe: .... Member should not be too critical of Luxembourg. It has a great contribution to make to the Assembly. The European Movement published its report on the recommendations to which even that leading Gaullist the right hon. Member for Sidcup has now become converted and in which the right hon. Member for Fulham (Mr. Stewart) played a leading rôle. In paragraph 16 it said, interpreting the...
Mr John Biffen: ...as to whether they go back into the "snake", we shall discuss these matters, and shall continue to do so after 5th June, without having an emotional spasm. There are good, sound, patriotic and Gaullist European reasons for this country to maintain its own exchange rate and to have a free rate. I make that as a point, and I relate it to the fact that the movement in the exchange rate was an...
Mr David Marquand: ...development fund is important for Europe and for the United Kingdom. I urge my right hon. Friend, when he is in Brussels next week, to make sure that it is used in a European and not simply in a Gaullist, way.
Mr Russell Johnston: ...Parliament. It seems ludicrous that at a time when political opinion is shifting within this country and when even the French Government, who opposed us year after year, are now in favour, the Gaullist mantle should fall over the shoulders of the Foreign Secretary. It also seems incredible. Certainly the British Parliament has taken some steps towards controlling the activities of...
Mr Roderick MacFarquhar: ...has only 49 major surface combat vessels and 19 ordinary submarines, and Germany has 22 surface vessels and 13 coastal submarines. France maintains an Indian Ocean presence, but not even the most Gaullist admiral could claim that it would do much to protect French shipping in war time, while the Germans plainly maintain a basically coastal fleet for Baltic purposes. Does anyone in the...
Mr Harold Lever: ...have done with what was done by their predecessors. Most unfortunately, when the oil crisis first broke out the then Prime Minister, now Leader of the Opposition, seemed to take a sort of Gaullist lurch, which was in grave danger of wrecking our relations with the United States. As a passionate European, who sometimes has some difficulty in expressing that passion from this Dispatch Box,...
Mr John Biffen: ...assembly with proposals at this time. Monsieur Jean Pierre Fourcade, the French Finance Minister, has a stabilisation programme of upwards of £700 million. I understand from The Times that the Gaullist Party spokesman, Monsieur Debré, has said: we must be ready to regard it as only a first step.The Times correspondent goes on to say: The general feeling in and out of Parliament is that a...
Mr Wyn Roberts: ...and some members of his Cabinet wanted to break up their troublesome State monopoly and create a commercial channel to provide competition. But they were opposed by an unholy alliance among the Gaullist UDR Party, the Socialists, the Communists and the trade unions. Therefore, all that the President has been able to do is to create seven independent regional services in competition with...
Mr David Marquand: ...much solidarity in the past 12 months. This has been a great disappointment to me, as I voted in favour of entry to the Community. But one reason is that the previous Government were far too Gaullist in their approach to the Community. That is one reason why effective energy and regional policies were never developed. It would be a tragedy if we were to conclude that because the Community...
Mr Harold Lever: ...can only result in disaster for us in the long run. I was disappointed in the former Leader of the Opposition, because towards the end of his period in office he appeared to lurch into a kind of Gaullist position in its worse sense, not in the sense of the great general's genius but in his more narrow and vulgarly anti-American postures and his unwillingness to take part in large-scale...
Mr Maurice Edelman: ...Russians apply their diplomatic and even military pressures in order to secure their own ends. Therefore, the Americans encouraged European co-operation and unity. Suddenly, in accordance with the Gaullist doctrine, the Americans with all their gifts, contributions, and diplomatic and tactical support to Europe, now find themselves faced with a situation in which some of the European...
Mr Jeremy Thorpe: ...Government was that they were not sufficiently acute in trying to improve the terms. The Leader of the Opposition will, I hope, forgive me for saying that sometimes we remarked that he was the best Gaullist we had. There are many supporters for the view that the terms should be improved. Mr. Helmut Schmidt said that he would like to see a radical reform of the common agricultural policy....
