ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I will show that from 1965 to 1973 West Germany continued to develop a new migration regime in Western Europe, but that this evolution was slowed down by a growing divergence with France. I will show how progress towards free trade for industrial goods in the Community and German reluctance to grant more concessions to France in the field of the Common Agricultural Policy meant repeated French obstruction in the domain of migration. 1 I will show in particular how France managed to maintain the barriers to immigrants in independent occupations. I will also describe how the nature of immigration to France and West Germany diverged in this period. Greater international openness resulted in a higher degree of labour unrest in France. I will explain how, in this context, France and West Germany continued opening up to Community migrant workers, but how this was subject to the interests of their national workers and how the dynamic expanding the regime to third countries slackened.
