1963 Text
Van Gend en Loos judgment
The Court of Justice asserts direct effect: Community law creates rights for citizens themselves.
What leads to what
Declared chains of causation — debatable, like any reading of history.Upstream
- leads to Treaties of Rome 1957 La Cour tire du traité un droit que les citoyens peuvent invoquer eux-mêmes.
Downstream
- leads to Single European Act 1986 Un ordre juridique propre rend pensable un marché sans frontières.
Meanwhile, elsewhere
Within twenty-five years of 1963 — the context national timelines leave out.- 1 year earlier Second Vatican Council Vatican City
- 5 years later Prague Spring Czechia
- 6 years later Discovery of Ekofisk Norway
- 6 years earlier Treaties of Rome
- 7 years earlier Budapest uprising Hungary
- 11 years later Carnation Revolution Portugal
- 11 years later Division of the island Cyprus
- 11 years earlier Seat of the High Authority Luxembourg
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