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European Communities1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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On May 17, 1960, the European Parliamentary Assembly adopted unanimously, with 12 abstentions, a draft convention for election of its members by direct universal suffrage. The members of the Assembly were currently nominated by the six member national parliaments in proportion to party strength, but were the draft project, which had first to be approved by the Council of Ministers and ratified by the six national parliaments, to come into effect, a parliament directly responsible to the electorate of the six countries would be created for the first time. Elements of the proposal included: 1) an increase in the number of members from 142 to 426 who would vote individually and be forbidden to accept imperative instructions; and 2) a temporary provision proposing that, until the end of the transition period of the common market, only two-thirds of the members be directly elected, the other third to be appointed by the national parliaments as at present.

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International Organizations: Summary of Activities: III. Political and Regional Organizations
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International Organization , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , Fall 1960 , pp. 678 - 681
Copyright
Copyright © The IO Foundation 1960

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2 Bulletin from the European Community, 07 1960 (No. 40), p. 1, 4–5Google Scholar.

3 For a summary of the Joint Meeting, see this issue, p. 676–677.

4 Forward in Europe, 08 1960 (Vol. 2, No. 3), P. 7Google Scholar.

5 The New York Times, July 3, 1960.

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8 The New York Times, June 23, 1960.

9 Ibid., June 27, 1960.

10 Ibid., July 1, 1960.

11 Bulletin from the European Community, 08 1960 (No. 41), p. 1–10Google Scholar.

12 The New York Times, August 22, 1960.

13 The Times (London), 07 8, 1960Google ScholarPubMed.

14 The New York Times, June 30, 1960.

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17 See above, p. 678–679.

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19 Ibid., June 10, 1960.