TALKS BY THE SIX

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30578, 22 October 1964, Page 21

TALKS BY THE SIX

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(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copy right) STRASBOURG, Oct 20. A new plan to speed np Common Market Integration and completely remove customs barriers between the Six by 1967 was outlined tonight to the European Parliament in Strasbourg. The plan—“lnitiative 1964” —was presented to parliamentarians by Professor Walter Hallstein, the West German President of the European Economic Community’s executive commission. Professor Hallstein said a rapid decision by the Six— France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg—on speeding up the removal of customs barriers “should reassure the economic world on what lies in store for it.” The Parliament tonight heard a Gaullist member declare that, with Labour’s election victory in Britain, France was “ready to resume at any moment” talks on European political union deadlocked since April, 1962. Mr Jean de Lipkowski said that since Britain’s non-entry into the Common Market was part of the victors’ electoral programme, a bone of contention between Europeans had disappeared “as long as Labour remains in power.” Mr de Lipkowski was intervening in a debate on the E.E.C. executive commission’s annual report.