The Fouchet II plan on European Political Union is submitted.
In the early 1960s, difficult negotiations were conducted based on the two Fouchet plans, which were successively submitted by France and envisaged closer political cooperation, a Union of States, and a common foreign policy and defense. A committee, tasked with drafting specific proposals, achieved complex compromises, but particularly ambitious ones, such as the establishment of an independent secretariat or the future prospect of decision-making by qualified majority in certain areas. Unfortunately, as no agreement was reached on the proposals of the Fouchet committee, negotiations between member states were suspended in 1962.
