EEC Council of Ministers (Meeting)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 19 Rhagfyr 1973.

Danfonwch hysbysiad imi am ddadleuon fel hyn

Photo of Sir Alec Douglas-Home Sir Alec Douglas-Home , Kinross and West Perthshire 12:00, 19 Rhagfyr 1973

I hope that we can work towards a situation—and this is the plan—under which, after the transitional period, Europe will be a free trade area.

So far as the regional fund is concerned, I can be positive: if the Community is to be a reality, it must have not only a common agricultural policy but a common regional policy. We are working towards this end, and hope to achieve it by 7th January.