Download or read book Enlarging the European Union written by M. Geary and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book presents a new history of the first enlargement of the EU. It charts the attempts by the European Commission to influence the outcome of the British and Irish bids to join the Common Market during the 1960s and 1970s. The most politically divisive EU enlargement is examined through extensive research in British, Irish, EU, and US archives.