The Treaties and the Institutions of the European Union

Antonio Piccinini and Margaret Loseby

Chapter 3 in Agricultural Policies in Europe and the USA, 2001, pp 32-47 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract At the end of the Second World War in 1945 economic recovery in Europe was hindered by obstacles which would have proved impossible to overcome if faced by each single state on its own. George Marshall, the American Secretary of State, perceived the need for a wider and more effective approach to the aid which the United States destined to Europe, and drew up the European Recovery Program, a plan which is known in history as the Marshall Plan, inviting European countries to prepare a scheme for the distribution of aid and integration of their economies. A Conference on European Economic Cooperation was called, in which seventeen states took part.1 This Conference enabled a programme of recovery to be launched, which aimed at a rapid increase in production. The Marshall Plan was successful and permitted the participating countries to reduce their debts with third countries and no longer to depend on American aid. The

Keywords: Member State; Agricultural Policy; European Council; Common Agricultural Policy; European Economic Community (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230597150_3

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