7 January 1985Delors Commission Takes OfficeJacques Delors
The first Delors Commission took office with completion of the internal market among its central objectives.
Historical records for France in 1985, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
The first Delors Commission took office with completion of the internal market among its central objectives.
A director of French arms sales who is assassinted by Action Directe
A director of French arms sales who is assassinted by Action Directe
A director of French arms sales who is assassinted by Action Directe
Delors made completion of the internal market a defining priority of his new Commission.
Delors welcomed the accession treaties for Spain and Portugal as a major expansion of democratic Europe.
Mitterrand represents France as the Communities conclude accession terms with Spain and Portugal.
Mitterrand supported France's participation in the Schengen Agreement to reduce controls at participating states' internal borders.
Dumas backs France's participation in the founding five-state agreement for gradually reducing checks at common borders. French policy couples freer movement with stronger police coordination.
Leads France when Belgium, France, West Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands sign the Schengen Agreement on gradual abolition of internal border checks.
The Commission presented its White Paper setting out measures needed to complete the internal market by 1992.
In France, Joxe starts adapting border and policing arrangements to the commitments created at Schengen. Paris also emphasises effective controls at the Schengen area's external frontier.
Lalumiere helps review legal consequences of the agreement's programme for progressively freer cross-border movement. France supports mobility alongside common visa and security arrangements.
Mitterrand supported launching treaty negotiations intended to deepen Community integration and complete the internal market.
Sicardy helps obtain further occultation evidence confirming that Neptune possesses persistent ring arcs.
Death of Simone Signoret
Jacques Delors began his presidency of the European Commission, launching a decade of major initiatives for deeper European integration.
The Delors Commission oversaw a large degree of expansion. The membership of Spain and Portugal came first in 1985; then the fall of the Berlin Wall enabled the Reunification of Germany; and in 1995 came the accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden. The Delors Commission also prepared the opening to the eastern countries who later joined in 2004
Resigns over the introduction of PR
Directs Vagabond, a nonlinear portrait of a young drifter.
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