The “empty chair” crisis in the Spanish press, 1965-1966 ; La prensa española ante la crisis de la “silla vacía”, 1965-1966

This article analyzes the vision of the Francoist Spain on the so-called “empty chair crisis”, a serious political and institutional conflict that disturbed the European Economic Community for seven months, between 30th June 1965 and 30th January 1966 and which ended with the signing of the Luxembourg Compromise, which partially limited the supranational ambitions of the Hallstein Commission and the Treaties of Rome.The positions adopted by the Francoist government and the newspapers will confirm the existence in Spain of two essential ideas of Europe at the time, two visions largely opposed a... Mehr ...