Heaths EEC And Yom Kippur Flashcards
When does Britian join EEC and give info around it.
1 January 1973 with majority in clouding 69 Labour MPs voting in favour of
- consensus membership offered Britian industry better access to europes market with European competition helping stimulate modernization and development
- Ponpidou made Britian sacrifice remaining preferential trade with commonwealth and accept EECs policy of subsidizing French farmes
- angered eurosceptics
Little impact economically and controversial
Give info on the Yom Kippur war and the OPEC oil crisis?
October 1973 Egypt Syria went to war with Israel attempt to recover land lost in 1967
- angry at western support of Israel OPEC cut oil supplies and quadrupled their price
- Britian depended on oil for 50% of energy and it massively impacted prices and was worsened by the 73 miners strike leading to the three day week
What did this mean ?
Failure in foreign policy and foreign interests collide with miners strike (result of IR) to cause a national state of emergency and embarrassment
- Britian still had to increase dependably on coal giving miners greater leverage
