ABSTRACT
In this chapter the author describes the style and content of the negotiations, beginning with the former. The fact that the Community could only speak with one voice meant that they could only speak after they had decided among themselves what that voice was to say. This made an extended dialogue impossible. one of the objectives in the negotiations is to offer the Community every possible chance to get together for discussion among themselves. Dr. Nass remarks that the 'great issues' of European integration were never discussed in the negotiations, by which he means questions such as the future policies of an enlarged Community, its relations with the rest of the world, what its institutions should become and how they should work. The facet of the Community's principle of 'swallow the lot' was involved in the contention that certain relatively minor matters should be left over to be settled after the author had joined the Community.
