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Foreign Secretary James Callaghan last April sent shock waves through the Common Market by demanding a thorough renegotiation of the terms under which Britain joined the Community 18 months ago. If satisfactory adjustments were not made, he warned, the Labor government would call a national referendum, recommending withdrawal from the EEC. Last week "Sunny Jim" Callaghan showed up at a meeting of EEC foreign ministers in Luxembourg with a smile instead of a shillelagh. In a rather more conciliatory speech than his colleagues had expected, he announced that Britain's Labor government was "ready to play our full part...
...What Callaghan meant was that Britain feels cheated by the terms of entry negotiated by the former Conservative government of Edward Heath. By 1980, the Foreign Secretary contended, Britain will be paying about 24% of the Common Market's budget according to the present schedule of assessments, even though its gross domestic product will be only 14% of the Community's total...
...first appearance before the EEC, France's new Foreign Minister Jean Sauvagnargues read Callaghan's speech as a threatening one. French Premier Jacques Chirac later warned Britain not to expect drastic changes and said that his government would oppose any renegotiation of the terms of entry. Other members were less antagonistic, and even France agreed to study recent growth patterns to determine whether Britain is being overcharged. Nonetheless, there was considerable resentment on the part of the ministers that at a tune when the Community as a whole is faced with unprecedented economic problems including record inflation...
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...nothing, he might have added, will happen, at least for a while. The informal gathering of EEC foreign ministers, scheduled for next month in Bonn, where Callaghan was to spell out in detail Britain's aims, has now become meaningless because of France's uncertain political situation. At the same time, Pompidou's death scuttled plans for a late May or early June summit of EEC chiefs to consider the British proposals...