Establishment of a European General Common Market
- Author(s):
- Parliamentary Assembly
- Origin
- (see Doc. 605, draft Resolution presented by the Committee on General Affairs and Explanatory Memorandum by M. van der Goes van Naters). TThis Resolution was adopted by the Assembly at its 37th Sitting, on 11th January 1957
The Assembly,
Considering that the problem of the integration of the whole, or of an essential part, of the territory of free Europe should be viewed from the angle of general European policy, in other words, that it is Europe's duty to act whenever its general interests are at stake,
1. Welcomes the outcome of the OEEC study establishing the viability of a free trade area which should also take in the common market to be established among several of its Members;
2. Urges that, with regard to agriculture and industry, an effort should be made to find a solution such as may be satisfactory to all Members of the Common Market and will not hinder the subsequent establishment of a free trade area;
3. Declares itself in favour of a democratic and parliamentary control of all the financial, economic and social activities of the Common Market, since only in this way can the whole of free Europe, as represented in the Council of Europe, make its voice heard, whenever the general interests of Europe are at stake.
