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The dramatic period of 1965–66 has painfully stuck in the minds of all those involved and all those observing. The ‘crisis’ — as it was soon called by everyone — lasted from 30 June 1965 to 29 January 1966. Outwardly, it began with the end of the French chairmanship of the EEC Council of Ministers in Brussels and the French refusal to participate in further meetings of the Council of Ministers. And likewise outwardly, it ended with the so-called Luxembourg Compromise on 29 January 1966. But closer examination reveals that this serious crisis was looming on the horizon much earlier, though the signals coming out of Paris were not taken in earnest by anyone, least of all by Walter Hallstein.
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Götz, Hans Herbert, reports in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 1965–7.
Hallstein, Walter, Europäische Reden, eds Thomas Oppermann with Joachim Kohler (Stuttgart, 1979).
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Götz, H.H. (1998). The Crisis of 1965–66. In: Loth, W., Wallace, W., Wessels, W. (eds) Walter Hallstein: The Forgotten European?. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26693-7_11
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