1968 Event

Customs union

Name: Customs union
Start: 1968

Internal tariffs disappear eighteen months ahead of schedule.

What leads to what

Declared chains of causation — debatable, like any reading of history.

Upstream

leads to Treaties of Rome 1957 Onze ans pour supprimer les droits de douane intérieurs.

Downstream

leads to First enlargement 1973 Un marché qui fonctionne attire ceux qui l’avaient refusé.

Meanwhile, elsewhere

Within twenty-five years of 1968 — the context national timelines leave out.

same year Prague Spring Czechia
1 year later Discovery of Ekofisk Norway
6 years earlier Second Vatican Council Vatican City
6 years later Carnation Revolution Portugal
6 years later Division of the island Cyprus
10 years later Democratic constitution of Spain Spain
11 years earlier Treaties of Rome
12 years earlier Budapest uprising Hungary

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Which long period

Periods overlap: they are landmarks, not boxes.

European integration 1950 – 2030 From coal and steel to a Union of twenty-seven.
Cold War 1947 – 1991 A continent cut in two, from Yalta to 1991.

Countries involved

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What was written of it

Owing to the morbid estrangement which the madness of nationality has set between the peoples of Europe, the clearest signs are overlooked: Europe wants to become one.

Friedrich Nietzsche 1886

Beyond Good and Evil

Translated by the site, not by the author.