Word: messina
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British felt threatened by the Common Market, they had themselves largely to blame. Though Britain was invited to take part in the 1955 Messina conference that drew up plans for the Common Market, the British government did not even bother to send a minister-apparently in the happy conviction that the Common Market would never get started. When it became clear that the Common Market could work, charged the Common Marketeers, Britain deliberately set out to destroy or dilute...