Colonial ghosts. British decolonisation and the iberian enlargement of the european economic community, 1981-1986
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https://doi.org/10.5944/hdp.40.2022.39042Keywords:
Decolonisation, Iberian Enlargement of the EEC, Gibraltar, Macau, Hong Kong.Abstract
This paper examines the political factors that informed British stance on the Iberian enlargement of the EEC, with a special focus on the role of two British colonies –Gibraltar and Hong Kong– in the negotiations. Drawing on both archival material and scholarship, I argue that the future of these British colonies determined how Thatcher approached the Iberian enlargement of the EEC. While the end of the restrictions on the border between Spain and Gibraltar was a British requirement for the Spanish membership of the EEC, Thatcher supported unconditionally Portugal’s accession, despite it created an unfair treatment for Hong Kong in comparison to the Portuguese colony of Macau.
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