50th Anniversary: The Paris Summit October 1972
On 19 October 2022, the 50th anniversary will take place of an event of historic importance in the evolution of Ireland’s engagement with the European Community, and later the European Union. The Paris Summit of October 1972 was critical in giving formal reality to the Community’s first enlargement and in setting out an agenda of aspiration and action for the nine members of the new European Community, not least the far-reaching goals of Economic and Monetary Union and eventual European Union.
In this paper, IIEA Senior Fellow Tony Brown, reflects on this significant event in Ireland-EU relations, and brings together some key commentary and reaction from the time.